MV LAST ELEPHANT. 
India, was eighty-five pounds, and that so long ago as 1870 
I confirmed this statement in The Field If I did so. 1 was 
myself in error. When my friend, Mr. Sanderson, pubUshed 
his most interesting work entitled ' Thirteen Years amongst 
the Wild Beasts in India/ he requested me to have the tusks 
of the elephant weighed and measured carefully, and at page 
63 all the dimensions will be found accurately "recorded. It 
will be seen that the perfect tusk weighs ninety pounds, and 
the broken one forty-nine pounds. The perfect tusk is exactly 
eight feet in length. Unluckily I cannot remember exactly 
what the tusks weighed shordy after the animal was killed, 
but I remember being disappointed at finding they had lost 
considerably when I weighed them for Mr. Sanderson, Le., 
fourteen years afterwards. 
''Victor Brooke." 
On this same trip 1 killed my last elephant. On 
August Tst, we started up the valley to look for elephants. 
When three parts up we saw some on the opposite 
side ; it took us some time to get rounds and when we 
did get to the spot they had vanished. After hunting about 
amidst numerous tracks we at last heard them ; creeping up 
to a tree about thirty yards from them, I saw they were all 
females. I would not fire for fear of disturbing a tusker, 
so we watched them for some time, and the way in which 
they flogged the flies off with twigs was a caution to smalt 
boys ; at last one of them winded us and they all moved 
off. Soon afterwards we came on them again, hidden away 
in some bamboos ; we got up close to three females, I 
moved a little forwards to get the shot ; the instant I did so an 
old lady with a calf at her heels caught sight of me and 
wheeled round, 1 had my rifle loaded with a quicksilver 
