Upon Reaching The Top Of Some Rising Ground I Noticed Several Elephants, At About A Quarter Of A Mile Distant Upon My Left In High Grass, While The Remaining Portion Of The Herd (Three Elephants) Were About Two Hundred Yards Ahead, And Were Stepping Out At Full Speed Straight Before Us.

Wortley had now had plenty of practice, and shot his elephants well.

He and Palliser followed the three elephants, while I parted company and ran towards the other section of the herd, who were standing on some rising ground, and were making a great roaring.

On arriving within a hundred yards of them, I found I had caught a 'Tartar'. It is a very different thing creeping up to an unsuspecting herd and attacking them by surprise, to marching up upon sheer open ground to a hunted one with wounded elephants among them, who have regularly stood at bay. This was now the case. The ground was perfectly open, and the lemon grass was above my head: thus I could only see the exact position of the elephants every now and then, by standing upon the numerous little rocks that were scattered here and there. The elephants were standing upon some rising ground, from which they watched every movement as I approached. They continued to growl without a moment's intermission, being enraged not only from the noise of the firing, but on account of two calves which they had with them, and which I could not see in the high grass.

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