60 THE ASIATIC ELEPHANT. 



shoulder. I could not at first make this out, but soon came to the conclusion— which was of 

 course correct — that I must have fired at two Elephants. 



Going back to where I had left the track of the second Elephant on (as I thought) 

 seeing him, I found that it turned off in another direction. I followed it at best pace for 

 several miles, but at last gave it up, as the Elephant seemed to have no idea of stopping. 



Returning to the dead one, I cut off his tail and forefoot, and took his measurements 

 very carefully. He stood ten feet one inch at the shoulder, and his forefoot was exactly five 

 feet and half-an-inch in circumference. The rule, that twice round an Elephant's forefoot 

 gives his height, is more accurate than might be supposed. It will generally be found correct 

 within an inch or two. 



I also set men to work to cut out his grinders, and it was after completing this work on 

 the following day that poor Moti was killed by a Tiger, as elsewhere related. 



After in vain endeavouring to avenge Moti's death, I gave up shooting in the Doon, and 

 walked from Rikki Kase to Dehra on the 30th of May — a long and hot walk. 



Since then I have only hunted Elephants once, for two days in the Path Doon in 1866. 

 I saw two tuskers, but the fallen leaves which then (in March) covered the ground rendered 

 it impossible to walk without noise, and I did not get a shot. 



I hope still to have an opportunity of bagging a few tuskers, though Elephant-shoot- 

 ing is quite properly prohibited in most districts in India. 



Mr. Sanderson states that so far from there being any scarcity of Elephants they are 

 actually on the increase ; and the extensive captures which he has made during the last few 

 years show that there is at any rate an ample supply for immediate wants. 





