SPORT AND ADVENTURE 

 IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. 



AT THE KHEDDAHS WITH THE DUKE OF 

 CLARENCE. 



ALL Mysore was agog when it was known that the 

 Heir-presumptive of the mighty Empire of the 

 Kaiser-i-Hind was to visit that province. What 

 sort of a reception should we give him ? Was it to 

 be the usual review of troops in garrison, triumphal 

 arches, fireworks, and illuminations, the reiteration 

 of sights which must have palled on him long ere he 

 reached far-off Mysore ? It was a happy thought 

 indeed which fixed on a hunt of the leviathans of 

 the forest as worthy the attention of our illustrious 

 visitor. Sanderson, the hathee (elephant) king, was 

 amongst us. He had just returned from his big 

 catch of six hundred elephants in one lot on the 

 Garo hills, and was now in charge of the kheddah, or 

 elephant-catching operations, in Mysore. To him 

 was entrusted the task of arranging a drive and 

 capturing a herd of wild elephants in the presence 



