The guards drew around us.

I said to them, 'This is Buhram,' and he was seized just as a cat seizes a mouse.

Then Buhram said, 'I am a Thug! my father was a Thug, my grandfather was a Thug, and I have thugged with many!'" So spoke the mighty hunter, the mightiest of the mighty, the Gordon Cumming of his day.

Not much regret noticeable in it .-- ["Having planted a bullet in the shoulder-bone of an elephant, and caused the agonized creature to lean for support against a tree, I proceeded to brew some coffee.

Having refreshed myself, taking observations of the elephant's spasms and writhings between the sips, I resolved to make experiments on vulnerable points, and, approaching very near, I fired several bullets at different parts of his enormous skull.