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the drive at that point. The Tungku and I rode on, 
the elephant in the center, twenty-five men on each 
side and an elephant at each end, headmen with 
their muzzle loaders on the elephants. 
At the striking of a tom-tom we all started to 
move toward the camp. The men were told to 
make as much noise as they wished and believe me it 
was a noisy crowd. They went at it heart and 
soul, not only on account of the incentive of clear- 
ing out of their district a lot of destructive animals, 
but the killing of the man-eating tiger and the net- 
making contest, the way I had gone about things 
in general had inspired them all with the utmost 
confidence. They believed that no possible harm 
could come to them while with me, and my slight- 
est wish was carried out. The drive itself is not 
dangerous as you are fairly safe in numbers. 
With the men shouting, and cutting the under- 
growth, and the two elephants at each end breaking 
through, there was enough noise to startle and 
drive any animal before it. Our work in extract- 
ing whatever we caught and the putting together 
of cages, would not allow those animals caught in 
nets much chance to bite through or injure them- 
selves as we could handle the most violent ones first. 
In handling and taking from the nets the smaller 
animals a thick bamboo was used hollowed through- 
out, about five or six feet long, with a length of 
stout rattan, the end doubled together and run 
through the bamboo, leaving a loop at one end 
