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liardenetl ball atid four drachms of powder. She was not above 
fourteen yards off. The ball struck her between the eyes, 
but the only effect was to turn her round and send her ofif 
at the double. I was considerably riled after such a failure^ 
and was sitting on a rock chewuig the cud of disgust when 
our people said there was an elephant close by. Asking B, 
to stop her if 1 did not, we stole up to her. I saw that she 
was the same old female with the young one ; I got up 
to within sixteen yards, and the next moment would have 
had a good ear shot, but she saw me and instantly gave 
a trumpet and charged full tilt at us down the slope of the 
hill. I had to advance a pace or so to get clear nf some 
bushes ; taking a steady aim with the Lancaster I sent both 
balls between her eyes, and though tin hardened bullets 
they had apparendy no more effect than if they had been 
putty. The Lascar with my other gun had bolted, so there 
was no help for it but to bolt after him ; he fell flat on 
his face, and L got the rifle from him. In the meantime 
Brooke had stood like a trump, and had stopped and turned 
the elephant at seven or eight yards ; he wisely did not wait 
on such ground to fire the other barrel. He said the calf, on 
its mother turning, threw up its trunk and gave a loud 
hooray, when away they both went, and we never saw them 
again. This was very unsatisfactory. We had not, however, 
gone far when we came upon a fresh herd returning up 
the hill from their bath ; they were all covered with black 
mud, but there was no tusker with them ; we stalked to 
within twenty yards of them ; my two failures had nearly 
destroyed my confidence. After watching them for some 
time I took a shot at an old female behind the ear as she 
turned ; it appeared to be another failure, but the next 
