The lord of the forest--Wild elephants in India--_Kheddah_ operations in the Terai--How rogues are made--Rogues attack villages--Highway robbers--Assault on a railway station--A police convoy--A poacher's death--Chasing an officer--My first encounter with a rogue--Stopping a charge--Difficulty of killing an elephant--The law on rogue shooting--A Government gazette--A tame elephant shot by the Maharajah of Cooch Behar--Executing an elephant--A chance shot--A planter's escape--Attack on a tame elephant--The _mahout's_ peril--Jhansi's wounds--Changes among the officers in Buxa--A Gurkha's terrible death--The beginner's luck--Indian and Malayan _sambhur_--A shot out of season--A fruitless search--Jhansi's flight--A scout attacked by a bear--Advertising for a truant--The agony column--Runaway elephants--A fatal fraud--Jhansi's return 104 CHAPTER VII A FIGHT WITH AN ELEPHANT We sight a rogue--A sudden onslaught--A wild elephant's attack--Shooting under difficulties--Stopping a rush--Repeated attacks--An invulnerable foe--Darkness stops the pursuit--A council of war--Picking up the trail--A _muckna_--A female elephant--Photographing a lady--A good sitter--A stampede--A gallant Rajput--Attacking on foot--A hazardous feat--A narrow escape--Final charge--A bivouac in the forest--Dangers of the night--A long chase--Planter hospitality--Another stampede--A career of crime--Eternal hope--A king-cobra--Abandoning the pursuit--An unrepentant villain--In the moment of danger 124 CHAPTER VIII IN TIGER LAND The tiger in India--His reputation--Wounded tigers--Man-eaters--Game killers and cattle thieves--A tiger's residence--Chance meetings--Methods of tiger hunting--Beating with elephants--Sitting up--A sportsman's patience--The charm of a night watch--A cautious beast--A night over a kill--An unexpected visitor--A tantalising tiger--A tiger at Asirgarh--A chance shot--Buffaloes as trackers--Panthers--The wrong prey--A beat for tiger--The Colonel wounds a tiger--A night march--An elusive quarry--A successful beat--A watery grave--Skinning a tiger 141 CHAPTER IX A FOREST MARCH