8 BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA 



I saw him stop dead, point to the left, and 

 then come running back to me, wildly waving his 

 arms. Thinking he was urging me to follow the 

 herd (for I had stopped running), I said to him 

 as soon as he reached me, ' I am not going after 

 them. He is only a small tusker.' Allah Din 

 was too winded to speak at first, but presently 

 he gasped out, ' It isn't that, but I have just 

 seen an enormous tusker close by on our left.' 

 I was at a loss what to make of this, as we were 

 on an open plain with a few trees growing at 

 intervals, and with no cover even for a deer to 

 hide in, much less an elephant. A patch of 

 thick jungle, however, stretched away to the 

 left, and hid the plain in that direction from 

 view. Allah Din now went on to explain that, 

 just as he had got level with this strip of jungle, 

 he had seen a lot of elephants, as he expressed 

 it, standing out in the open, and that there were 

 several tuskers among them, and, in especial, 

 one huge elephant with magnificent tusks. I 

 followed the orderly somewhat doubtfully, but as 

 soon as we had got level with the strip of jungle 

 above mentioned, such a sight met my eyes as 

 I had never before witnessed. There were 

 about a dozen elephants quietly standing right 

 out in the open, nearly all of them bulls, with 

 several good tuskers among them. One of them 

 towered above his fellows, but I could not see 

 his tusks, as a cow stood alongside hiding the 

 lower portion of his head. Allah Din, however, 



