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CAPTURE OF A YOUNGSTER. 
tusker, charging right and left at everything that came in his 
way, banging his head up against enormous forest trees, and 
pushing with all his force against them, apparently under the 
impression that they must fall beneath his enormous power. 
On my trying to turn him he furiously charged me, turn- 
ing as I turned, roaring at me with rage, and when I got 
behind a tree he came full tilt up against it. At last we 
boned him by the tail, and held on over a fallen tree like grim 
death ; however, the strong little brute gradually worked his 
tail through our hands and ran off again. We tore after him 
and I caught him by his tail again, shouting out loudly for 
assistance ; he dragged us to the edge of a rock and Michael 
neatly pushed him over it^ we holding by the tail so that he 
could not use hts hind legs ; after many hard struggles and 
stretching his tail and trunk to the utmost we secured him, 
but the poor little beast died the next day. 
On the 14th we were undecided where we should go, 
when the question was settled by Atley reporting that a 
tusker had been seen on the other side of the Annagundy 
Pass, with fresh t nicks of a herd. We started about nine 
a.m., riding ;is far as the top of the Pass ; we had gone bCit a 
very short distance down the other side when we struck on 
the *' spoor" of the herd ; some monkeys in the reeds close 
by made a sound so exactly like elephants moving off that for 
a time we thought that they had taken alarm, but it was not 
so, for after a comparatively short track we came up with 
them. We could only see a couple of females low down in a 
nullah, 1 selected one showing the temple shot, though it 
was the furthest off, as I funked the shot behind the ear which 
the nearest gave. This deceived Michael, who thought 1 was 
sure to take the nearest ; seeing me raise my riHe, he did the 
