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time, falling down and goring the earth with his tufks. If 

 bv thefe exertions the Phands are once broken, which fome- 

 times is effc&ed, and he efcapes into the thick jungle, the 

 Mahotes dare not advance for fear of the other wild ele- 

 phants, and are therefore obliged to leave him to his fate; 

 and in this hampered fituation, it is faid, he is even unge- 

 neroull'y attacked by the other wild elephants. As the 

 sables are very ftrong and feldom give way, when he has ex- 

 hausted himfelf by his exertions, the Koomkees are again 

 brought near and take their former pofitions, viz. one on 

 each fide and the other behind. After getting him nearer 

 the tree, the people carry the ends of the long cables around 

 his legs, then back and about the trunk of the tree, making, 

 if they can, two or three turns, fo as to prevent even the 

 poffibility of his efcape. It would he almoit impoffible to 

 fecure an elephant in any other manner, as he would tear 

 tip any flake that could at the time be driven into the 

 gYound, and even the noife of doing it would frighten the 

 elephant: for thefe reafons, as far as I can learn, nothing 

 lefs than a ftrong tree is ever trufled to by the hunters. For 

 ftill farther fecurity, as well as to confine him from moving 

 to either fide, his fore-legs are tied exactly in the fame man- 

 ner as the hind-legs were, and the Phands are made faft, one 

 on each fide, to trees or flakes driven deep into the earth. 

 During the procefs of tying both the hind and fore-legs, the 

 fourth Koomkee gives afliilance where neceflary, and the 

 people employed cautioufly avoid going within reach of his 

 trunk ; and when he attempts to feize them, they retreat to 

 the oppofite fide of the Koomkees, and get on them, if ne- 

 ceflary, by means of the rope above mentioned, which hangs- 

 ready for them to lay hold of. Although by thefe means 

 • he is perfectly fecured and cannot efcape, yet as it would be 

 both unfafe and inconvenient to allow him to remain in the 

 verge of the jungle, a number of additional ropes are after- 

 wards put on, as (hall be mentioned, for the purpofe of con« 

 dueling him to a proper ftation. When the Goondah has 

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