scream of disappointment, came tearing down the bed of the nullah. I was directly in his path, and powerless to get out of the way. A moment more, and I saw that I was perceived, for down he charged on me with a roar of vengeance. With difficulty I raised my rifle, and, taking a steady aim between his eyes, pulled the trigger-it was my only chance. When the smoke cleared away, I perceived a mighty mass lying close to me. At last I had conquered. Soon after this I must have sunk into a swoon, for I hardly remembered any thing until I found myself in my hut.

"My body was very much swollen from the severe blow I had received, my back being black from the waist upward. A native remedy was applied, and my back covered with leeches, but I was entirely laid up, and had to return to Ooty to recruit."

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Mr. William Charles Baldwin, in his book on "African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi," relates two very thrilling adventures with elephants. Meeting upon one occasion five bull elephants, he gave chase, singled and drove out the largest, and gave him a couple of pills to make him quiet; he shortly turned and stood at bay, about forty yards off, and then came on with a terrific charge. My newly-purchased horse, Kebon, which I was riding for the first time, stood stock still, and I intended to give the elephant my favorite shot in the chest, but at every attempt to raise the gun for the purpose of so doing my horse commenced tossing his head up and down, and entirely prevented me from taking aim. During my attempts to pacify and steady him, the bull charged, and I fired at random, and whether the ball whistled uncomfortably near the horse's ear or not I can't say, but he gave his head so sudden a jerk as to throw the near rein over on the off-side; the curb-chain came undone, and the bit turned right round in his mouth. The huge monster was less than twenty yards off, ears erected like two enormous fans, and trumpeting furiously. Having no command whatever of my horse, I dug the long rowels in most savagely, when Kebon sprang straight forward for the brute, and I thought it was all up; I leaned over on the off-side as far as possible, and his trunk was within a few feet of me as I shot close by him. I plied the rowels, and was brought again to a sudden stand by three mapanitrees, in a sort of triangle; a vigorous dig, and he got through, my right shoulder coming so violently in contact with one of the trees as almost to unhorse me, slewing my right arm behind my back, over my left hip. I know not how I managed to stick to my gun, 14 lbs. weight, with my middle finger only hooked through the trig

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ger-guard, my left hand right across my chest, holding by the end of the reins, which, most fortunately, I had in my hand when I fired, and in this fashion we went at a tearing gallop through a thick

tangled bush and underwood, mostly hack-thorns, over which my nag jumped like a buck. He was very nearly on his head three or four times, as the soil was very heavy, sandy, and full of holes. The monster was all this time close in my wake; at length I got clear from him, and he turned and made off in the opposite direction at his best pace. As soon as I could pull up, which I managed after performing three or four circles, I jumped off, righted my bridle, and went after him like the wind, as he had a long start, and I was afraid of losing him in thick bush. After giving him ten shots, and sustaining three more savage charges, the last a long and silent one, far from pleasant, as my horse had all the puff taken out of him, and he could only manage to keep his own before the brute, to my great satisfaction he at length fell, to rise no more."

The other incident is as follows: "We found a troop of eleven or twelve bull elephants in a thick hack-thorn bush on the banks of the

river. As they crashed away, I rode hard in the rear, shouting lustily, and singled out the largest bull. I rode close under his stern, and he cleared a path for me. He turned to see who had the audacity to ride so near, for the horse's nose touched him, when I gave him a bullet behind the shoulder, and cleared out of his path. In reloading I lost him, and, cantering on his spoor, he very nearly caught me, as he had stopped and turned round just where the path turned suddenly and sharply to the right, and I was almost under his very trunk ere I saw him. He was lying in wait, and made a terrific charge, trumpeting furiously; the horse was round like a top, and away I went, with both rowels deep in his flanks as I threw myself on his neck. It was a very near shave; his trunk was over the horse's hind-quarters. I went through bush that, in cold blood, I should have pronounced impenetrable, but did not come off scathless; my poor hands were shockingly torn, and my trowsers, from the knee, literally in shreds, though made of goatskin. After giving the elephant two more bullets I lost him. The dogs were frightened to death, and would not leave the horse's heels.

I shortly came across another troop of bulls, which took against the wind, leaving such a dust behind them that I was half smothered. I rode, at last, a little wide of them, on the weather-side, and was able to get a view of their teeth, and I rode out one with beautiful long teeth. He very soon lessened his speed, turned, and before I was aware, charged me. I could not turn in time, and, therefore, fired right between his eyes. The shot struck him about an inch above. the left eye, and brought him on one knee, and I was able to get out of his way. He then took up a position in the bush, and I loaded and gave him two more bullets in the head, one in the centre of his forehead. He kept backing farther and farther into the bush, with his two enormous ears erected like fans, and, as I was thinking the last shot must tell on him, he made the longest and most furious charge I ever saw; he fairly hunted me, while I was half loaded, clear away. I rode in a circle to endeavor to dodge him, and at length succeeded. He stopped at fault, and I began to reload. I had none but conical balls, and the gun was foul. I could not get one down. I sought in vain for a stone, and at length, in despair, took up a thick branch, and, what with hammering the ramrod, and driving it against the trunk of a tree, I at length got the bullet home; but my elephant had made good use of his time and got clear away."

mere fact that such instances are remarkable is of itself sufficient evidence of the general intellectual inferiority of the animals quoted, and indeed of the entire family represented by them. On the other hand, so far from there being occasion to hunt up cases of peculiar intelligence among the widely-spread carnivorous tribes, the difficulty would be to find a dull dog, or a cat incompetent to conduct its business.

Of the wondrous strength of the lion, nearly all that can has already been said. By one blow of his tremendous fore-paw he will bring a running horse to a dead halt, with its shoulder-bone shattered; and the skull of a man, curiously strong as it is, the lion can crush beneath his foot, as you or I could crush a cherry-stone. He