Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
Elephant HuDt IN SudaD

ing suit, breaking the stiffness of the night by
terrific trumpeting and screaming. The whole
herd charged straight for us in mass. The ma
tives fed, and as we could do no good by shoot
ing, w. and | went off in different directions.
The ground was covered with long dry grass and
little bumps and l had not run 10 yards before
l fell fiat on my face | was up in second with
the herd behind me, and rushed on, only to fall
again. This happened third time, and then |
was absolutely blown, and | stopped, and
found to my relief that the herd had stopped, too,
having evidently lost my wind, and were shifting
about.
| went back to within about 60 or 10 yards of
the herd, and joined almost Immediately by
W., who had made for the belt of trees. We
waited for while to get good shot, and pres
emily the herd began to move off again inland.
We made out bull and both fired at him. The
elephants stopped and again closed up, but ap-
parenty did not get our wind this time, they
presently started back to the khor in single file;
but after going about 30 yards they suddenly
turned and came for us in line, trumpetng loudly.
We made off in different directions, but after
running little way my shikari said that he
thought they had stopped. After few minutes
my shikari clutched my arm and pointed out to
me two elephants, which | had not seen and
which were facing me not fifty yards away. One
of them was waving his trunk about in the air,
evidently thinking something near Sudden.
ly he curled up his trunk, cooked his enormous
ears, and giving tremendous trumpet, charged
down on me, followed by his mate. With my late
experience of running in the long grass clearly in
mind | went off at steady double, outstanding
my breath for sprint if they got close up to
me.
1 made for the belt trees, where it was better
going and soon came on w. and the natives,
who were coming back to look for me. AS my
shikari said he could see the rest of the herd com
ing on, too, we all went along the belt of trees
at our best pace. We soon out of sight of
them in the darkness and stopped. Although we
could not see could hear them not far off be-
cause after waiting time we sent a native
back to reconnoitre and he reported that the
elephants had gone back to the khor. We then
got hold of our kit and settled down for the
night the intention being to follow them up as
they went inland and get shot by daylight.
Some of the elephants went away inland very
soon, and at intervals all night could see them
loom up in the darkness as they passed by us.
There were a few elephants of different herd
on our right, that we had them on all four
sides of us The herd we had fired at were very
angry and kept up tremendous trumpeting and
screaming till about . A. NJ, when most had
gone inland. All became quiet then, and we
thought that they had all gone. At the first
streak of dawn went down to the khor to
see what damage we had done the night before
To our surprise we saw a herd of seven still
drinking and playing about in the mud. We
crouched behind bush and watched them throw
ing water about for a few minutes. They then
began to walk back in single file. We let them
pass us about $50 yards to our left, so as to get
the windward side of them, and then ran along
through the trees to come up with them. We
saw them coming out of the trees about 100 yards
away. We had just settled to fire at one bull
who had good pair of tusks when around bush
about so yards away came an enormous bull
elephant with fine pair of tusks, broadside on.
we both fred simultaneously. He cooked his
enormous ears and made off at numbering trot
II ran after him as hard as ! could to get in an.
other shot, but he was already several hundred
wards away. After going about 500 yards we saw
him fall dead He measured IL feet ~ inches
high at the withers and had fine pair of tusks