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The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon

CHAPTER XII
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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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