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Adventure in a Jungle

EVERAL years ago a neck. They had reached, one day, a party of young civil- dense cane brake, and were pushing their ians in India, while in way through long grass some twenty feet pursuit of large game, in height, and as the stems and reeds experienced a strange through which the Elephants had to force and most disagreeable themselves were of extraordinary thickadventure in the jun- ness, their progress was necessarily very gle, the particulars of slow. They did not expect to find game which are as follows: in this part of the jungle, still, to their The party, consisting of four astonishment, the two Elephants began to friends and an experienced native show unaccountable signs of fear. This hunter, were mounted on two Ele- kept the whole party on the alert, as some phants, each animal having, of wild animal was evidently close at hand, course, a mahout or driver seated on its while they could not see an inch in front