LlOSr AND ELEPHANT HUNT. 22 the third, who yet lived, though his whole belly was torn out, told us, that a lion had attacked them. On hearing the shots, our servants had hurried up, and were now sent back to the camp with the survivor, though my brother had no hopes of saving him. The Pascha no sooner heard this, than with Soliman Kaschef and his body-guard he mounted to pursue the lion, and I accompanied him with my hunter Sale, my brave lad from Mahass, who afterwards followed me to the White Nile, to show him the place and the visible track. Arrived there, the Turks galloped on, and I and Sale remained alone behind. I heard a heavy tread and the breaking down of bushes, and saw near me an elephant with its young. Sale, who was some distance from me, and had just shot a parrot, called to me, asking, if he was to fire at the elephant, which I loudly forbade. The beast went on close past me, crushing down the bushes: I saw its high back, and took up a ."ecuro position between some Dom-palms which, springing from one root, stood so close together, that the elephant from its size could not push in to me. Sale, in the meantime, was up a tree, and told me that the elephant had turned and was making its way back to the Chaaba. The inon;*ter seemed to be enraged, but still alarmed for its young one ; for we found a long track on the ground where it had with its tusks as with a plough turned up the soil. Some shots were heard, and we fancied the lion had been tracked ; but it proved to l-c the Pascha and his mounted followers, who had seen the elephant. A mounted messenger now galloped into camp, an<l in a moment the Arnaut Abdin Bey with some of his peopU came up. The elc)»hant, finding itself saluted from all sides l)y a shower of balls, now charged here now tliere on the riders, who fired at it and as quickly as possible wheeled oft'. Aim as far as possible was taken at tlie eye, and ere long it was evid<'nt it was blinded, as in its mad charges on its foes it dashed against the palm-trees till the fruit fell in showers from them. All dismounted, and a narroAver circle was formed round the elephant. It must hav<! by this time received some hundred balls, and the ground it staggered over was dyed red, when the Pascha cvv\)t up to it, and, kneeling down, sent a ball into the right eye, on which the colossal creature fell backwards and expired. No traces could be found of the young