A job you might want to try in India is as a mahout, a keeper of these large animals
So here he is walking a line 
between anti-imperialism and "the evil spirited little beasts who tried to make my 
job .... he shoots the animal anyway to satisfy the crowd of natives who want him 
to kill... [DOC] [TLE] Mahout - Wikipedia [PAR] An image of the elephant keeper in India riding his elephant from Tashrih al-
aqvam (1825).