After breakfast we shot a few couple of snipe upon the plain, and in the evening we formed two parties--Palliser and V.Baker, and Wortley and myself--and taking different directions, we scoured the country, agreeing to meet at the tent at dusk.
W.and I saw nothing beyond the fresh tracks of game which evidently came out only at night.

We wandered about till evening, and then returned towards the tent.

On the way I tried a long shot at a heron with a rifle; he was standing at about a hundred and fifty yards from us, and by great good luck I killed him.
On arrival at the tent we found P.and V.B., who had returned.

They had been more fortunate in their line of country, having found two rogue elephants--one in thick jungle, which V.B.fired at and missed; and shortly after this shot they found another rogue on the plain not far from the tent.

The sun was nearly setting, and shone well in the elephant's eyes; thus they were able to creep pretty close to him without being observed, and P.killed him by a good shot with a rifle, at about twenty-five yards.