ELEPHAKT. 13$ 
and it then fell dead before its wounded mother, 
whom it had so affectionately defended.” 
In the Asiatic Annual Register for 1804 there 
is an account of a splendid hunting party of the 
late Nawab, Asuf-ud-Dowlah, who with an im- 
mense retinue took the field to the destruction of 
every animal that came in the way : among the 
number of the slain was included an elephant ; and 
as a particular account is given of the manner in 
which he was attacked, we shall relate it nearly in 
the words of the writer. — The next sport of any 
magnitude was the attack on a wild elephant, who 
was seen on a large plain overgrown with grass. 
The Nawab immediately formed a semicircle with 
four hundred tame elephants, who were directed to 
advance and surround him. When the semicircle 
of elephants got within three hundred yards of the 
wild one, he looked amazed, but not frightened : 
two large and fierce elephants were ordered to ad- 
vance against him ; but they were repulsed with a 
dreadful shock, and drove-by the Nawab, who, as 
the wild one passed, ordered some of the strongest 
female elephants to go along-side and endeavour to 
entangle him with nooses and running knots : the 
attempt, however, was vain, as he snapped every 
rope, and none of the tame elephants could stop his 
progress. The Nawab, perceiving it impossible to 
catch him, ordered his death, and immediately a 
volley of above a hundred shots was fired : many 
of the balls hit him ; but he seemed unconcerned, 
and moved on towards the mountains : an incessant 
