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We taught her to He down for the saddle to be put on 

 in four lessons, in the first one of which she had to 

 be pulled down by force with her one fore and one hind 

 foot fastened up. She is now ready to do her share 

 of the work. 



A young one, caught in Maputoland in 1917, was 

 trained to harness and works daily drawing a plough. 

 Her photograph is appended. This is an experiment 



Fig. 45. — The Last Lap : into the Box. 



conducted by the Portuguese Government at the instance 

 of Mr. Viana Kodrigues, Magistrate of Maputoland at 

 Bela Vista, whose praiseworthy efforts are much to be 

 commended. The Belgian Government has established 

 a training station at Api in the Belgian Congo, where 

 I understand a number of Elephants are in training after 

 the Indian plan. Why cannot we follow their example ? 

 Elephants rarely breed in captivity — even the domesti- 

 cated Indian animals — and in the wild state only one 

 young one is born. The period of gestation is from 

 twenty to twenty-three months. Their sight is not 



