their way on horseback through the thorny path cleft
by the herd in rushing through the jungle. Abou Do
had blood upon his sword. They had found the elephants
commencing a retreat to the interior of the
country, and they had arrived just in time to turn
them. Following them at full speed, Abou Do had
succeeded in overtaking and slashing the sinew of an
elephant just as it was entering the jungle. Thus the
aggageers had secured one, in addition to Florian’s
elephant that had been slashed by Jali. We now
hunted for the “Baby’s ” elephant, which was a l m o st,
immediately discovered lying dead within a hundred
and fifty yards 9f the place where it had received
the shot. The shell had entered close to the shoulder,
and it was extraordinary that an animal should have
been able to travel so great a distance with a wound
through the lungs by a shell that had exploded within
the body.
We had done pretty well. I had been fortunate
in bagging four from this herd, in addition to the
single bull in the morning; total, five. Florian had
killed one, and the aggageers one; total, seven elephants.
One had escaped that I had wounded
in the shoidder, and two that' had been wounded
by Florian.
The aggageers were delighted, and they determined
to search for the wounded elephants on the
following day, as the evening was advancing, and
we were about five miles from camp. Having my
measuring-tape in a game-bag that was always car-
• ried by Abdoolahi, I measured accurately one of the
■ elephants that had fallen with the legs stretched out,
so that the height to the shoulder could be exactly
t a k e n -From foot to shoulder in a direct line, nine
feet one inch; circumference of foot, four feet eight
inches. The elephant lying by her side was still
larger, but the legs being doubled up, I could not
measure her; these were females.
We now left the jungle, and found our horses
waiting for us in the bed of the river by the
waterside, and we rode towards our camp well
satisfied with the day’s work. Upon entering an
- open plain of low withered grass we perceived a
■ boar, who upon our approach showed no signs of
fear, but insolently erected his tail and scrutinised
our party. Florian dismounted and fired a shot,
which passed through his flank, and sent the boar
flying off at full speed. Abou Do and I gave
, chase on horseback, and after a run of a few
hundred yards we overtook the boar, which turned
resolutely to bay.
In a short time the whole party arrived, and, as
Florian had wounded the animal, his servant Hicham
; considered that he should give the coup de grace ;
but upon his advancing with his drawn knife, the
boar charged desperately, and inflicted a serious
wound across the palm of his hand, which was
completely divided to the bone by a gash with the
sharp tusk. Abou Do immediately rode to the
.rescue, and with a blow of his sword divided the