144 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The following diagram shows approximately the shape :— 

The hole A was that in which the elephant was captured. B was 
a small pocket at a higher level and contained clear water. The 
north side or wall of the hole was’some 12 to 15 ft. above the level of 
the water, and the south side about 6 ft. with a sloping lip. It was 
down this lip, polished by generations of thirsty beasts to a slippery 
smoothness, that the poor elephant had slid. 
