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MAMMALIA-ELEPHANT. 



The celebrated white elephant, which is the only one in the possession of 

 the king of Ava, is of a cream color, and has no appearance of disease or 

 debility. It was taken in 1806, when young, in the forests of Pegu, and is 



about twenty-seven years old. Both the court and people consider it pecu- 

 liarly inauspicious to want a white elephant; hence the repute in wlncn 

 they are held, and the anxiety to obtain them. The, capture of a white 

 elephant is consequently highly rewarded. 



It has been a: erted by Buifon and others, that the young elephant _- 



