The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-10-21 00:00:00

1' When we hail gnpe about a lustier of a mile
demo the Nialle, there bring but Jost room at the
bottnin for our elephant to walk clear of the
birdies, we came to a spot where it was a 1111 he
whler. and win:l.r some water hail collected. Here
Ike fell in Fraser, on his elephant, who
met with ow heiter success than ourselves, though
we hint all searched ev.ry hush as closely as we
could with our ilea, ill !oming along. Ile tie.
sired ns to viloit there a lie minutes, while he
nowitited the batik shove to look after the rest of
the elephant,: bithigh rune of us were very P:11:-
gitiole of sport hure, from the jungle being so thick
and an iAtensive on every ride. lie had hardly
gme ::war, seller* the people in the trees called
out that they Paw the wild heat in the bushel', on
Our left hood ; and in a few minutes a lioness
eroesiql ti:e narrow neck of the canal, just before
us. :owl clambered up the opposite batik. I imme.
di.esely fired, but missed her; the turn pointed
that site hail run along the honk to the westward.
We torned round, and had the mortification of
septet; her again dart across the path. and ran iato
the cater, through the Nulla, for some yards ; at
tio li moment nu: elephant IWCHTIIe refractory,
kept wheeliog about, mai was so unsteady as to
Winke it impoislile for us to fire. However, we fol.
lowed her up to the thicket, in which eke had taken
shelter, and put the elephant's head tight into it,
when we }hid the faliffitetion to hear her growling
close to us. Just as we were vipectiog her charge
ere! y on:alto, and hail prepared our muskets ready
to :isittt at her, round wheeled the elephant
and beearne perfectly unmanageable.
During the scuffle between the elephant and the
Mahout we heard the cry, that the limu:ss was again
raniilllg down the bank, and a gun went nit She
aguos eroswil the Nulla, and we saw the partridges
Fleet up from a thicket into which she had pene-
trated. Jost as we got our elephant to go well in
she ran bark spin, and couched under a thicket,
oo our left hand bank, near to which she had origi-
nally been started. All this happened in the space
of a short minute. Fraser then called to kis to
l•nine routed the hush, as the hostess bring in a fosse
between him and or. we hindered him from fit-
itr. Just as we got out of his reach lie fired, mod
as 'mop as our elephant slopped I did the eanie ;
berth ohms took effect, for the poor Loners stirred
nut trom the pool, loot lay and growled in rather
a met tnellosi or follow tune titan that of a tiger.
All our guns were loaded with slugs. end after
it few dweller:4e*, poor lioness tried to sally
front her covet% anti relied over and over into the
bed of the calud below. Her loins were evidently
all cut to pieces. and her bind party trailed after
her. Thu. was lucky fur us, as her fore pints
appestrel to be strong and unhurt. She reared
herself upon her fore legs, and cast towards us a
look that hespske revenge, complaint. and
nity, which I thongist to be quite alleeting; per-
haps, lowers, r, it was the old prejudice in favour of
limos, that made me roof this, as well's the there
was an infinite degree of timit and dignity in her
attitude; her head, half averted Rom no, was turn.
ed back, as if ready to stint at us, if the wounds in
her funs had not disabled her. As it was now mer.
cy to tire, aid put an end to her aufferitig., I took
a steady urns, and shot her right through the head ;
she fell deed at once, stud it was found, on going
up to her, that the ball had Completely carried away
her lower jaw. tier body was dragged op the batik,
and Fraser pronounced her to be not two yeats old.

We now blunt. that the shot which we hod
11(.3111, when down below, nu occasioned by the
heelless having made a spring at a poor man, who
stood rune struck, ointiole to discharge his piece.
or to run away. She had thrown him down. and
got Mtn completely under her, and his turban its
her math, The elephants all dismayed had turn-
ed back, when 51r. Wilder, seeing the imminent
danger of the moment, fired at the Houma, and
grazed her side. Sloe immediately- left her hold,
ran hack into the jungle, and acres, the canal,
where we tiost pert.• lied her. This grand sight
we lost by being stivioned is the bed below ; it was
said to have loren veoy fine; bat then we had, in-
Vert] of it, revere' clews of this noble snimil,