Chapter I: Front Matter

The Boys' Big Game Series

THE ROGUE ELEPHANT

The
Boys'
Big
Game
Series

=THE GIANT MOOSE.= The monarch of the big
Northwest; a story told over camp fires in the
reek of cedar smoke and the silence of the
barrens.

=THE WHITE TIGER OF NEPAL.= The weird story of
the man-killer of the foothills. Tinged with
the mysticism of India, dramatic and stirring.

=THE BLIND LION OF THE CONGO.= A story of the
least known part of the earth and its most
feared beast. A gripping tale of the land of
the white pigmies.

=THE KING BEAR OF KADIAK ISLAND.= A tale of the
bully of the Frozen North and his mysterious
guardian. A game-and-man-story that makes a
good boy-story.

=THE ROGUE ELEPHANT.= A big game hunt that
leads into strange lands and stranger
adventures in a real big game country.

_Remarkable covers and four-color jackets.
Illustrations and cover designs by Dan Sayre
Groesbeck_

Price 60 cents each

Publishers The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago

THE ROGUE ELEPHANT

BY

ELLIOTT WHITNEY

Illustrated by Fred J. Arting

The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

COPYRIGHT, 1913
by
THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.

THE ROGUE ELEPHANT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I A CHANCE "OUT" 9

II OFF FOR THE FRONT 21

III QUILQUA THE MYSTERIOUS 33

IV MAKING READY 46

V THE FIRST HUNT 59

VI MOUNT KENIA 71

VII ELEPHANT 83

VIII A RECONNAISSANCE 95

IX INTO THE UNKNOWN 108

X MOWBRAY'S END 120

XI THE DESERT TREK 133

XII A DESERTED LAND 145

XIII A DESPERATE BATTLE 158

XIV THE LAKE OF MYSTERY 170

XV "UNDER THE LEFT GATE-POST" 182

XVI SELIM SHOWS HIS TEETH 194

XVII FRESH SPOOR 206

XVIII LOST! 218

XIX THE ROGUE ELEPHANT 230

XX THE BACK TRAIL 242

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

It seemed that the great beast was towering
over him, reaching for him with that terrible
trunk. Then he drew a careful bead on the
left fore-shoulder. _Frontispiece_

Everything else was forgotten in the novel
method of riding. _Page 54_

For the man, just as he relapsed into unconsciousness,
murmured four words:
"Help--me debbil man!" _Page 118_

One slash of the knife, and out trickled a
little stream of yellow grains into the brown
fist of the explorer. _Page 192_

The Rogue Elephant