76 THE ROYAL TIGEE OF BENGAL. 



(Bombax), and other trees. There are numerous 

 open glades covered with long grass, in which both 

 the spotted deer (Cervus axis) and the hog deer 

 (Cervus porcinus) are found. 



" We heat all over the plain but found no tigers. 

 They had been there, but were from home ; and, re- 

 crossing the Grirwah, we returned, making a shoi-t 

 detour through the edge of the forest to a large 

 swamp about a mile to the westward of the place 

 where we had entered the forest. We sent the 

 whole line in, and the elephants were immediately 

 hidden in the long nurkool grass. I and H. took 

 the plain side, B. and D. the opposite side close to 

 the edge of the forest, keeping a little in advance 

 of the line that was crashing and tearing through 

 the nurkool behind us. 



" When the elephants had got about a quarter of 

 the way through the swamp, some of them began 

 to trumpet and show other signs of uneasiness. A 

 moment afterwards two tigers broke cover, bound- 

 ing out into the plain within thirty or forty yards 

 of my elephant ; fifty yards farther on they entered 

 the jungle again. The moment my elephant saw 

 them she turned sharp round with a scream and 

 bolted, fortunately for me, across the plain ; had it 

 been into the forest I was done for. The mahout 

 stopped her in about three minutes, and back we 

 came to the edge of the swamp. I now took up my 

 station at an opening in the long grass, where, being 

 driven before the elephants, it was evident they must 



