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The elephant skin I had carefully folded before drying, so that I 

 was able to pack the whole of it in a box measuring 2 feet 6 inches 

 by 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet, and the whole weighed only two 

 hundred and ten pounds. I may add here that in 1880 this skin 

 was mounted at Pi'ofessor Ward's establishment in Rochester, by 

 another taxidermist, Mr. J. F. D. Bailly, and myself, requiring 

 four months' labor, and the old tusker who fell under such ro- 

 mantic circumstances on the Animallai slope now stands, still 

 "monarch of all he surveys," in the Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology, of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



At last the day came for me to leave, bag and baggage, for 

 Madras. Usually, in my wanderings in the tropics, when the time 

 comes for me to turn my back upon a given locality, I am able to 

 do so without a sigh, or a single wish ever to return and have my 

 experiences over again. Veiy often, I am glad to think that I am 

 leaving a place forever ; but not so with the AniraaUais. "When 

 the time came for me to take my last look at the jDrecipitous range 

 which loomed up like a wall all along the south, shrouded in a soft 

 blue vapor, I felt the sad conviction that never again would I cany 

 a rifle into such another hunter's pai-adise as that. The jungles 

 had treated me kindly in yielding up so much, and from that day 

 until my last I shall always have a longing to fight those battles 

 over again. 



By dint of the greatest determination, I managed to hold my 

 head up long enough to ship my cases of specimens at Coimbatore, 

 and take the train for Madras. I was not able to call on the Col- 

 lector, Mr. Wedderbum, to express my thanks for his official kind- 

 ness to me, and to report my success, but was obliged to make my 

 acknowledgments in writing. After enjoying another fever fit at 

 Madras, I shipped my Southern India collection, five wagon-loads 

 of big boxes, for Rochester, via London, on a Peninsula and Orien- 

 tal steamer, bestowed my blessing and twenty rupees backsheesh 

 upon Doi-aysawmy, the gentleman's god, and took passage on a 

 steamer bound for Ceylon. 



