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by John F. Richmond

This article originally appeared in the maga zine "Sport Afield," to which acknowledgment is made.

The

of

Our

The author and a month-old baby elephant, the capture of which enused three full grown elephants to starge. The baby elephant is now in Saigon.

The belly, rumbles

We

semicircle

We

MR. J. F. RICHMOND, the author of this article, is attached to the Socony-Vacuum Corporation in Hongkong, and recently left the Colony on leave to hunt big game in the wilds his head, buried his face against the indistinct Juss. of Canada. Mr. Richmond is a big-game hunter earth, and coughed. I looked at the were prodigious.

broken branches, mangled, palmtrees; We waited for the elephants to of considerable note, and has accompanied mashed bubon, underbrush im- move or change their positions Bo passable to humans trampled like we could see if there was a ball with Brads

Mighty beasts had passed. I tusks of trophy size. But Pietr. de- several expeditions.

tingled all over with a strangling elded to move first and in getting up wave, the terrible thrill of the most he whacked his gun barret against πτική awful pastime

earth-cleplant a tree. Instantly the chewing

belly rumbling censed and during the hanting.

In half an hour we came up close ensuing tense silence we froze in our enough to the herd to hear the beasts position. The suspense ended with erashing about in the shadłowy jungle the faintest of rustling sounds as the We parked our native retinue elephants moved cautiously away in JANUARY. 1986, I made an

we strock ahend, expedition into the big game A the fresk spoor of a big, lone as Siking matches

ALMOST immediately

the and I went on by our. the direction of the nearby hiling

to deter coolica. Almost a half run felds of French Indo-China and elephant, With the trackers out

mine the direction of the faint wind swung back on another hunted a region lying about 12 ahead, the bullock carts easily follow currents we crept slowly closer and and hurried to head them of miles north of Saigon, a Det

sted the trail through open woods and closer to the foraging herd, peecing were going too fast and making too country sprinkled freely with giant as we jolted along, a yellowish, fan

carefully through the thickets. and much noise, reckless inetics when in anthills and covered with fine, open coloured wild dog the size of a collie guarding against any sound of our close touch with elephants, but it forest, through which meander and

The was not the time or the place spread threads of dark, gloomy in Joped away from in fron

advance giving the alarm. column. lone elephant's trail elephants were feeding in

thick stop, and argue alut tactics. other lability of Proprietom... £1,000,000pographically like rivers and laker. converged with the spoor of

with vines In the surrounding Jungle was unspoiled wilderness stephants and we followed the traces patch of bambon Through this

irge nud of a small herd. At wet the trees and clumps of thornfushes tungst not a sound as we hurried there "

with roams un abundance of

as thick clump of bamboo small gume and 11:5 interesting the trackers covered in the native which the tange of vision animals and beautiful are not classified as game. Gaurs, guage and as our cart bumped limited to a few yards and the direc- bending out and down. Pietri turn- steadily onward the guide pointed out tion of sound confusing. Somehow ed sharply to the left and bending banteng, wild water buffuis, elephants, the bark of a tree pashed by a task, we progressed too far; the crashing, low continue on his way.

invisible beasts sounded on both sides net of following him my eyes swept tigers, leopards, wild boars and deer the full clear print of an enormous and finally in our rear as well. past the bamboo clump and fell upon of severni

species are all numerous foot on soft ground, and other signs

We approached within a few yards a huge, tuskless elephant standing. enough to be common animals.

In indicating at least one ball in the of an alphant peacefully feeding and lend raised, trunk coiled and ears achtition there are large animals of herd.

paused with rifles ready, expecting to rockeil, 30 feet away on the rare occurrence such as bears, wild

After a trek of some twe hours in catch a glimpse of the monster. side. Facing and watching us the golden Altan dogs, clouded,

WOR motionless, apparently leoparks, and others, Altogether it the carts we approached the jungle at Then an animal crashed in the under. beast is one of the world's happiest hunt. 8, paint not far from the elephant brush just behind us, struck our trail waiting for Pietri to come round the skeleton we had visited the preceding with a loud snort of terror the bambou to where he would be too afternoon. We halted and Pietri gave scent of man, and departed crashing close to escape. Like lightning some instructions to the trackers after londly through the thickets. Pietri flushes thoughts raced through my a which they followed the trail into the said it was a wild boar. Be that as hend: This elephant had no tusks- fessional guitles experience and the gle. Then, Petri and I still it may, the elephants' sense of danger more important, he was bent on mis- sportsman's enthusiasm: further, he riding the caris turned and followed had been disturbed by the noise of chief-Pietri had not seen the best know the sellers, the game, the the edge of the tangled jungle antil the fugitives Hight and the bed be in a fraction of a minule more as

we struck a canttrack lending into

oe- I killed the brute-if I fired and natives and three of their fanguages, the cool, dark depths. Before long we case silent and suspicious of its sur would be surprised and killed unless

roundings Immediately. Only and appreciates the visiting bunter's

caine spon the trackers, comfortably easionally could we hear a faint sound failed to kill instantly he woukt be viewpoint and interests.

squatting on their heels in the shade made by one of the ponderous beasts surprised and killed anyhow-I had On the last day before the date beside the track and laconically moving slowly and uncertainly, to warn hine of the danger before scheduled for our return to Saigon motloning to the Trampled vegetation stealthily seeking to escape from the firing

had crossed. vicinity. elephant hunting again, where the elephants

Back and forth, this way "Elephant," I breathed! About 8.30 we left our headquarters, The bullocks came to [} halt and and that, we went trying to head off n shnek constructed by Pietei on Uwe Pietri ant descended; followed the herd until we stepped in a dry elephant charged. instantly, moving outskirts of a small native village brief talk between Pietri

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and we set off once more.

small herd had met another herd in Believe me, an elephant intent the bamboo and that the two troupes on your personal destruction in a hust separated and doparted in differ- dense, gloomy jungle is a terrifying ent directions after being alarmed, sight totally different from the meck The trackers already had the trail of aspect of the enormous but amiable our band, recognizable by the set of captives, in a zoo. Fumbling with particularly big footprints, in hand the stuck cartridge I kept my eyes riveted on the approaching destroy The trail led straight to # low cr-the

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run away. trail lost where the elephants had round, and started to

Pietri Gred a second shot spread out and wandered almlessly. Wham! Other signs also showed that the into the enormous rear end with no herd was forgetting the possibility of visible result except for a flinching movement of the hindquarters. being pursueil,

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tracks. From perhaps 75 yards square in the right ear and hurled away came a noise; not the uproar of the huge beast over on his left side, Branches being torn from trees but his trunk flying wildly through the a low, rhythmic sound, the champ air as he went down in that crash.

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The 2.30 p.m. and because the clophants stricken benst had not yet finished had stopped where the jungle grow his fall when another elephant tore with especially rank luxuriance to into view 8 or 10 yards away on stand hiding during the heat of the my right and charged on sight. pumped off the day we had approached and come to Swinglig round close quarters by surprise. The guide fastest two shots 1 ever expect to waved his hand and our natives dia. fire, the last two, shots in the magn appeared in the bush as if by magic. zing, and then made a dive into the Striking matches carefully we, uslies that, without boasting un- closely observed the main direction of duly, probably constitutes a world's the curling smoke; it was perpendicu, record for speed and distance from lar to a line between ourselves and a standing takeoff.

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