TETEL DISTRESSED. 
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horse “ Mouse,” who went three to a Tetel’s” one, and 
instead of endeavouring to divert the elephant's 
attention, he shot ahead, and thought of nothing but 
getting out of the way. Yaseen, on “ Filfil,” had fled 
in another direction; thus I had the pleasure of being 
hunted down upon a sick and disabled horse. I kept 
looking round, thinking that the elephant would give 
in :—we had been running for nearly half a mile, and 
the brute was overhauling me so fast that he was 
within ten or twelve yards of the horse's tail, with his 
trunk stretched out to catch him. Screaming like the 
whistle of an engine, he fortunately so frightened the 
horse that he went his best, although badly, and I 
turned him suddenly down the hill and doubled back 
like a hare. The elephant turned up the hill, and en¬ 
tering the jungle he relinquished the chase, when 
another hundred yards' run would have bagged me. 
In a life's experience in elephant-hunting, I never 
was hunted for such a distance. Great as were Tetel's 
good qualities for pluck and steadiness, he had ex¬ 
hibited such distress and want of speed, that I was 
sure he failed through some sudden malady. I imme¬ 
diately dismounted, and the horse laid down, as I 
thought, to die. 
Whistling loudly, I at length recalled Hamed, who 
had still continued his rapid flight without once looking 
