^50 AN AMUSING INCIDENT. 
It was a sight to see him come against a good sized tree and 
knock it down, but the bamboo clumps bothered him ex- 
tremely ; he pushed up against them with all his force, they 
cracked and split and bent, but he could not force his way 
through them ; his rage at times was very great, he would 
knock a tree down, trample it under foot and kick it back- 
wards and forwards. I tried to induce him to move towards 
Takedy by occasionally throwing a stone at him, but this only 
made him still more furious, so finding we could do no more 
with him in the way of driving him 1 left him alone, and as it 
was near five o'clock and he was evidently getting weaker 
and could not go far we returned home. The next morning 
I went out to look for him and found him dead a few yards 
beyond where we had left him on the previous evening. 
I made him by measurement nine feet two inches at the 
shoulder, and his tusks one foot five and a half and one 
foot five in circumference, five feet four and a half inches 
and four feet nine inches respectively in length. 
On the 20th September, 1856, I started for a day at 
Perevai-Colum, my principal object being to try if I could 
kill a buck cheetul. As the elephant keepers wanted meat I 
took two of them with me, but just beyond the first nullah 
Atley pulled up at the fresh track of a herd of elephants; 1 
sent the Mussulmen back, and away we went after the Hutties. 
Early in the chase we came upon two bull bison feeding 
together, they were both fine, but one of them was particularly 
handsome with fine wide-spreading horns ; what a snort he 
gave as he stood broadside on, wondering where the strange 
noise came from (I was tapping the stock of my rifle with 
my hand). How I should like to have plugged him, but 
the track of the elephants was so fresh that I w\is obliged 
