Chapter VI: Rogues of the Forest

The lord of the forest--Wild elephants in India--_Kheddah_
operations in the Terai--How rogues are made--Rogues
attack villages--Highway robbers--Assault on a railway
station--A police convoy--A poacher's death--Chasing an
officer--My first encounter with a rogue--Stopping a
charge--Difficulty of killing an elephant--The law on
rogue shooting--A Government gazette--A tame elephant
shot by the Maharajah of Cooch Behar--Executing an
elephant--A chance shot--A planter's escape--Attack on
a tame elephant--The _mahout's_ peril--Jhansi's
wounds--Changes among the officers in Buxa--A Gurkha's
terrible death--The beginner's luck--Indian and Malayan
_sambhur_--A shot out of season--A fruitless
search--Jhansi's flight--A scout attacked by a
bear--Advertising for a truant--The agony
column--Runaway elephants--A fatal fraud--Jhansi's
return 104

CHAPTER VII

A FIGHT WITH AN ELEPHANT

We sight a rogue--A sudden onslaught--A wild elephant's
attack--Shooting under difficulties--Stopping a
rush--Repeated attacks--An invulnerable foe--Darkness
stops the pursuit--A council of war--Picking up the
trail--A _muckna_--A female elephant--Photographing a
lady--A good sitter--A stampede--A gallant
Rajput--Attacking on foot--A hazardous feat--A narrow
escape--Final charge--A bivouac in the forest--Dangers
of the night--A long chase--Planter
hospitality--Another stampede--A career of
crime--Eternal hope--A king-cobra--Abandoning the
pursuit--An unrepentant villain--In the moment of
danger 124

CHAPTER VIII

IN TIGER LAND

The tiger in India--His reputation--Wounded
tigers--Man-eaters--Game killers and cattle thieves--A
tiger's residence--Chance meetings--Methods of tiger
hunting--Beating with elephants--Sitting up--A
sportsman's patience--The charm of a night watch--A
cautious beast--A night over a kill--An unexpected
visitor--A tantalising tiger--A tiger at Asirgarh--A
chance shot--Buffaloes as trackers--Panthers--The wrong
prey--A beat for tiger--The Colonel wounds a tiger--A
night march--An elusive quarry--A successful beat--A
watery grave--Skinning a tiger 141