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the mahout sat near her head and kept her quiet, 

 Lumsden cut away the foot all round the thorn 

 until it was possible to seize it with a pair of 

 pincers and extract it. The elephant was groaning 

 with pain, and a kick might have caused Lumsden 

 most serious injury ; but the beast had the 

 intelligence to know that he was helping her, 

 and remained perfectly quiet during the operation. 

 I do not think any dog would willingly permit 

 a stranger to cause real pain to it without vigor- 

 ously objecting, even if the pain were caused 

 in the dog's own interest. 



In April 1905 I made my last expedition to 

 the Terai. The party on this occasion consisted 

 of Mr. W. B. M. Bird, Mr. A. Wood, and myself. 

 Major Fullerton, who had succeeded Major Lums- 

 den as Civil Surgeon of Bahraich, was also with 

 us during part of the time. On this occasion 

 I rode the elephant Chainchal, and had better 

 fortune. Our shooting-camp was on the bank 

 of the Rapti River ; and we reached the camp on 

 the 2Oth of April. In the afternoon of that day 

 and on the 2ist we hunted without any definite 

 information and without success, but on the 

 22nd a tigress was marked down in some very 

 thick cover. The first beat we had for her was 

 unsuccessful, but she did not leave the place, 

 and we beat the cover again on the following day 

 from a different direction. I was on one side 

 of the cover a little in advance of the line of 

 elephants, and when the line had advanced for 

 some distance the tigress came along the edge 

 of the cover, quite near the elephant. She was 

 not properly visible, and I was doubtful about 



