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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, 

 do not think any dog would willingly permit 

 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 



he Terai. The party on this occasion consisted 



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



ajor Fullerton, who had succeeded Major Lums- 



en as Civil Surgeon of Bahraich, was also with 



s during part of the time. On this occasion 



rode the elephant Chainchal, and had better 



ortune. Our shooting-camp was on the bank 



f the Rapti River ; and we reached the camp on 



he 20th of April. In the afternoon of that day 



d on the 21st we hunted without any definite 



formation and without success, but on the 



2nd 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 Une 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 



