straight at them, giving a yell that turned them. Away
they rushed up the hill, hut at so great a pace, that
upon the rutty and broken ground I could not overtake
them, and they completely distanced me. T^tel, although
a wonderfully steady hunter, was an uncommonly
slow horse, but upon this day he appeared to be slower-
than usual, and I was not at the time aware that he
was seriously ill. By following three elephants separated
from the herd I came up to them by a short cut,
and singling out a fellow with enormous tusks, I rode
straight at him. Finding himself overhauled, he
charged me with such quickness and followed me up
so far, that it was with the greatest difficulty that I
cleared him. When he turned, I at once returned to
the attack; but he entered a thick thorny jungle through
which no horse could follow, and I'failed to obtain a
shot.
I was looking for a path through which I could
penetrate the bush, when I suddenly heard natives
shouting in the direction where I had left the wounded
bull. Galloping towards the spot, I met a few scattered
natives; among others, Adda. After shouting for some
time, at length Yaseen appeared upon my horse Filfil;
he had fled as usual when he saw the troop of elephants
advancing, and no one knows how far he had ridden-
before he thought it safe to look behind him. With i l l