[The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon CHAPTER XII 65/98
The roaring continued until we were close to it, and we then saw a young elephant standing in the bed of a river, and he it was who was making all the noise, having been separated from the herd in the late melee.
Wortley shot him, this making eight killed. When within a mile of the tent, as we were riding along a path through a thick thorny jungle, an immense rogue elephant stalked across our road. I fired the four-ounce through his shoulder, to the great satisfaction of Banda and the natives, although we never had a chance of proving what the effect had been, as he was soon lost in the thick jungle.
A short time after this we reached the tent, having had the perfection of sport in elephant-shooting, although luck had been against us in making a large bag. Dec.
2 .-- The scouts having been sent out at daybreak, returned early, having found another herd of elephants.
On our way to the spot, Palliser fired at a rogue, but without effect. On arrival at the jungle in which the elephants were reported to be, we heard from the watchers that a rogue was located in the same jungle, in attendance upon the herd.
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