264 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER ch. 
II. 
A couple of days after the incidents related above, 
we followed up the spoor of four more elephants 
and succeeded in coming up with them, but in such 
THREE VERY FINE ELEPHANTS’ TAILS, AND ONE ABSOLUTELY DEVOID 
OF HAIR. 
dense bush that, though we could hear them 
bursting their way through the growth, seeing them 
was well-nigh impossible. In the midst of this 
exasperating state of affairs, the wind suddenly 
veered round, gave them our scent, and sent them 
crashing off through the jungle at a tremendous 
pace. Twice again, we came up with them, but the 
