AN ELEPHANT. 
to be trusted ; throw the bridle over his neck, and 
let him alone, he will pick out his steps as daintily 
as possible and bring you to the journey’s end with- 
out a false step ! At that time there was a patch 
of jungle on the very top of the hill through which 
the path ran : before going through w’^hich it was 
well worth while to sit down on a big stone and see 
all the magnificent scenery below, bathed in the full 
moonlight. We shall never forget the grandeur of 
the mountain scenery in many parts of the Central 
Province, and have often told our friends in the old 
country not to talk to us about scenery after what 
we had seen. But they would not belive it. As 
we get well through the path in the forest, and just 
before coming out, into upper clearing, we see some 
thing right in front, a huge black rock : can it be, 
we have missed the path ? No, that is impossible, 
there is only one path and a w^all of dence forest on 
each side, we knew the path well and are quite 
confident, no black rock or rock of any sort stands 
here. Just then the huge black rock commences to 
move ! And we now know very well what it is, but 
in case some of our readers may not we may just 
remark it was a wild elephant. The cold SAveet bursts 
out from every pore. Here we were in a narrow 
Jungle path at midnight, not two feet broad with 
thick nilu jungle almost meeting, and a few feet in 
front of us a wild elephant. What if he should make 
a dash down on the disturber of his midnight ramb- 
bles, and finish our life, as our holidays were done 
What if crash, crackle, crash, stones come tumbl- 
ing down in great numbers. We don’t even try to 
escape, we are done for, put our hands over our face, 
and crouch in to the side juiigel. Crash crack — it 
does noo seem so loud ; we venture to look up, and 
the elephant is gone up the path, and away —instead 
of down. Slowly, carefully, and with as little noise as 
possible we crawl up the path in the w^ake of the 
elephant. On approaching where it opens out into 
coffee, all seems clear space, nothing obstructs the 
beams of the moonlight. We peer cautiously round 
the corner of the jungle, but nothing is to be seen, 
a breath of relief is drawm, and we proceed on our 
way, but, before going far, the elephant is OA^ertaken ; 
walking leisurely along in advance ! Here have we 
been, instead of running away from an elephant, as 
was supposed, actually pursuing him ; not only this, 
but overtaken him ! But we are at home now, and 
know every inch of the ground, being close up to 
where another road branches off, and, whichever the 
elephant choses, of course we pursue the other. The 
