2 GOING OUT IN THE MORNING 



European. Its tail, it will be noticed, is tipped with pink, a practice still much affected by 

 native owners. On the left is a shdmidnd, or square tent with a flat roof, commonly used as 

 a sitting-room in the daytime and for a mess-room at night, when the weather is not too cold. 

 Sometimes, as here, the front is left open ; at other times its kandts, or movable walls, enclose 

 it on all sides. Immediately in front is a pad elephant, i.e., one on which the hunter's seat is a 

 pad of canvas thickly stuffed with straw and lashed round the elephant's body. Immediately 

 behind the animal's head sits the native driver, or )iid/iout, wielding his dnkus, a formidable 

 iron prod used for guidance or correction. A small elephant a little to the right is saddled, as 

 was not uncommon in bygone days, and mounted by a rider whose composite costume looks 

 like a yearning after Melton. In the centre are two native servants, " bearers " or valets 

 probably, clad in the chintz dresses padded with cotton which are still so common among 

 them in the winter months. Greyhounds and pet dogs, a dari, or tent-carpet, stretched on 

 the tent-ropes to dry, the muskets and cooking utensils of the guard, fill up the foreground, 

 while in the middle distance is a pair of combative nags that the syces, or grooms, are trying to 

 separate. 



