It was searching for the shikaree.
After a time it desisted from this manoeuvre, and looked around-- evidently with a puzzled air, and wondering what had become of the man.
It had not seen him as he rushed towards the great tree: for his retreat had been made while the creature was sprawling upon its back.

Just then Fritz chanced to show himself--crouching under the branches upon which his masters had taken refuge, and evidently envying them their secure situation.
The sight of Fritz was enough.

It was he who had first challenged the elephant on its approach through the woods, and had conducted it under that terrible battery of bullets and arrows.

As soon, therefore, as the latter set eyes upon the dog, its fury not only became rekindled, but apparently redoubled; and, hoisting its tail on high, it charged full tilt upon its original adversary.
Had the assailant been a boar, or even a bull, no doubt Fritz would have stood his ground, or only swerved to one side, the better to elude the onset, and make an attack in turn.

But with a quadruped as big as a house--and of which Fritz, not being of Oriental origin, knew so little; and of that little nothing that was good--one, too, evidently provided with most formidable weapons, a tongue several feet long, and tusks in proportion--it is not to be wondered at, nor is it any great blot upon his escutcheon, that Fritz turned tail and fled.