Here we accordingly bivouacked, the cave being sufficiently large to contain the horses in addition to ourselves and servants.

After a delightfully cool night, free from mosquitoes, we made a day of it, but we walked from sunrise till 5 P.M.without seeing a sign of an elephant.

At length, from the top of a high hill on the very confines of the Park country, we looked across a deep valley, and with the assistance of the telescope we plainly distinguished a large single elephant feeding on the grassy side of an opposite mountain.

To cross the deep valley that separated us, and to ascend the mountain, would have taken several hours, and at this time of the day it was impracticable; we were thus compelled to turn our backs upon the game, and return towards our rocky home.

Tired, more from our want of success than from the day's work, we strolled leisurely along, and we were talking of the best plan to be adopted for the next day's work, when I suddenly observed a herd of eight elephants going up the side of a small hill at their best pace within 200 yards of us.