My friend B.accompanied me, and we immediately started on horseback.
Our route lay across very extensive plains, interspersed with low thorny bushes and wide salt lakes.

Innumerable wild hogs invited us to a chase.
There could not be a better spot for boar-spearing, as the ground is level and clear for riding.

There were numerous herds of deer and buffaloes, but we did not fire a shot, as we had determined upon an interview with the rogue.

We traversed about four miles of this style of country, and were crossing a small plain, when our guide suddenly stopped and pointed to the elephant, who was about a quarter of a mile distant.

He was standing on a little glade of about fifty yards across; this was surrounded upon all sides but one with dense thorny jungle, and he therefore stood in a small bay of open ground.