revived, I determined upon acknowledging his good intentions. Stepping from behind the tree I had occupied whilst he was employed in his humane undertaking, I fired four shots successively into his forehead, which, however, stunned him. On reviving, he stuck his tusks heavily into the ground, and remained motionless for some minutes. I began to hope he was dead, and retreated to another position to reload.

My mouth was in a fearful state from thirst, my lips and tongue so cracked and parched, that they were bleeding profusely. The monster, to my disgust, again got up, but now very weak, and rolling about as if he had been indulging, ad libitum, in gin and leaden bitters. He staggered back with some difficulty, reached a tree, which he leant against. Jack now, for the first time during the encounter, spoke, or rather shouted, "By gar, Captin, him going.' I began to think so, and stepped out to within three yards of him. He made two very drunken attempts to come at me, and I plied him well

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with lead, so that he again reeled up against the tree. I retreated to re-load and had barely done so, when, to my great annoyance, I saw him moving again towards me, but now very feebly. He could hardly walk. I fired another shot at him, when he stopped, staggered, quietly drew his hind legs under him, then his fore, dropped his head heavily, and drove his tusks up to the roots in the ground, and then remained motionless. After waiting a quarter of an hour at least, during which time he never moved, we all agreed he was dead, and I proposed that Jack should go and ascertain the fact. To this Jack strongly objected. I then moved up and fired at the monster. The shot

did not disturb him.

We now moved out, as I was convinced he was gone, and going some distance round we came up in his rear. I again proposed that Jack should go and pull his tail to ascertain if he was dead or merely feigning; Jack demurred, however, at this. I promised, however, to stand by him and protect him. He

then declared that he, Jack, had been dead himself, at least six times during the encounter ; and that if I wanted to kill him outright, I had better shoot him at once. After some trouble, I persuaded him to follow me, and on going within five yards of the elephant's rear, I took a clot of earth and threw it at him. I then again proposed that, to make all safe, Jack should pull his tail. Jack continued his opposition, but as I knew there was no danger, and only wished to get a gallop out of him after the excited state he had been in for some hours, I urged his obedience. Jack now became desperate, going sideways towards the elephant's tail, and when within pulling distance, turning his head away, laying hold of it-giving it a pull, and then bolting as if he had a Congreve in his trowsers. After this feat, Jack never stopped until he had placed two hundred yards between himself and the dead elephant, when he gallantly faced about and finding he was not pursued, came back as fast as he could, entering immediately on his return into the

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pedigree of the deceased elephant, and favouring its mother and sisters with numerous epithets unfit for ears polite.

Thus died the savage Shikar Bassa elephant, for ten years the terror of that part of the Nepaul forest, and for six months his carcass, despite the zeal and energy of vultures and jackalls, afforded the villagers olfactory testimony that his remains were exceedingly disagreeable.

For killing this elephant I was presented in open Durbar, by the Rajah and heir apparent, with a handsome Khillut, or dress of honour, which was of great value, but which, of course, I was obliged, after wearing a few hours, to make over to the British Treasury in Nepaul, where all presents, according to the invariable custom at every British Residency, are annually sold, and the proceeds placed to the credit of the Treasury.

Amongst the animals who infest the forests of Nepaul, are one of the largest of the wild ox tribe known, measuring at the shoulder from eighteen to twenty hands and of great power.

The bull is a very ferocious animal, it is called by the Nepaulese the Ghowrie Ghai. The body is of a brownish blue colour to the knee, and from that to the hoof white, with a very formidable pair of horns, about two feet long, and of about eighteen inches in diameter at the roots. It is strongly allied in my opinion to the musk-ox of South America. From the root of the horns to the back of the neck, a strong oily substance is emitted with a very powerful musky smell. A more formidable animal than the bull there is not to be found in the Nepaul forests; no tiger dares to approach a full grown one, and two of them have been known to drive off a rhinoceros. The Nepaulese, being Hindoos, venerate this animal although they do not actually worship it; and they have a great horror of any one destroying him. I, unfortunately, while on a sporting tour in their forests and accompanied by one of the mission lately in England, Kajee Delhi Sing, very suddenly came upon a large bull, who as quickly prepared to attack me. Delhi Sing appeared