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his assailants, a gun was fired by one of the 

 hunters, who was on the outskirts of the battle, 

 presumably with the idea of overawing him ; but, 

 disregarding the other elephants, he rolled up 

 his trunk and made a splendid charge at the 

 smoke. The gunner made himself scarce, and 

 the elephant was by this time clearly master of 

 the situation. At Nanneh Khan's request, Mill- 

 ward jumped off Nellie and had three shots at 

 the wild elephant, with the object of crippling 

 him. The first shot was fired at the leg, and the 

 second at the head ; but both of these were without 

 effect, and a third shot was fired which, as the 

 elephant turned, struck him on the stern. It 

 was a solid bullet, however, and could not have 

 done any serious injury. Fortunately perhaps, 

 as the beast had put up a gallant fight, Millward 

 had no more bullets, so the elephant lived to 

 fight another day. I even heard it rumoured 

 that he returned some months afterwards and 

 proceeded to court Nellie when she was feeding 

 in the jungle. 



The fighting-elephants were, as Nanneh Khan 

 said, worn out with fighting, and McDonnell 

 Bahadur, one of the best of them, was injured, 

 and was not out on the day of the battle. 



A visit to the camp of the Kheddah to inspect 

 the captives was very interesting. There were 

 two captured tuskers which required rigorous 

 treatment, but it was amazing to see how quickly 

 the captured females accepted the position. I saw 

 a full-grown female walking peaceably to water, 

 with only one tame elephant in charge and one 

 rope attached to her neck ; and it was said that 



