THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT. 



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in transporting heavy burdens : in modern warfare he is used 

 only to carry baggage or drag along artillery ; his dread of 

 fire rendering him in actual battle more dangerous to his em- 

 ployers than their enemies. 



His consumption of food, however, is immense, and renders 

 him an expensive auxiliary. In India he requires daily one 

 hundred pounds of rice, to which must be added fresh vege- 

 tables and fruits : the finer animals of the rich are also treated 

 with butter and sugar. — The full-grown elephant Chunee, when 

 in Mr. Cross's collection at Exeter 'Change, consumed daily 

 three trusses of hay, and about two hundred weight of carrots 

 and other fresh vegetables, together with from sixty to eighty 

 gallons of water. 



The AFRICAN ELEPHANT.* 



In the preceding description the elephant is seen under all 

 the favourable circumstances that an association with man is 

 calculated to produce. His wants being supplied, his passions 



* When this figure was taken, the tusks had not appeared. 



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