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bring the herd above one circle in a day, except on alt 

 emergency, when they exert themfelves and advance two 

 circles. They have no tents or covering but the thick 

 woods, which, during the day, keep off the rays of the fun; 

 and at night they ileep by the fires they have lighted, upon, 

 mats fpread on the ground, wrapt up in a piece of coarie 

 cloth. The feafon is then fo mild that the people continue 

 very healthy ; and an accident fcldom happens except to 

 ftragglers about the outfkirts of the wood, who arc fomc- 

 times, though very rarely, carried off by tigers. The Kcd- 

 dah, or place where the herd is to be fecurcd, is differently 

 conftrufted in different places; here it confills of three en- 

 clofures, communicating with each other bv means of nar- 

 row openings or gateways. The outer enclofure, or the one 

 next to the place where the elephants are to enter, is the 

 largelt; the middle one is generally, though not always, 

 bhe next In fize; and the third, or furthermofi, is the fmalleir. 

 Tlicl'e proportions, however, are not always adhered to in 

 the making of a Kcddah, nor indeed does there appear to 

 me any reafon for making three enclofures : but as mv in- 

 tentions are merely to relate facts, I {hall proceed to obferve, 

 that when in the third or latt enclofure, the elephants are 

 then only deemed fecure ; here they are kept fix or eight. 

 days, and are regularly though leantily fed from a feaffold 

 on the uutfide, clofe to the entrance of an outlet called the 

 Roomec, which is about fixty feet long and very narrow, 

 and through which the elephants are to be taken out one 

 by one. In many places this mode is not adopted ; for, as 

 foon as the he.xl has been furrounded by a ftrong palifade, 

 Koonikees are fent in with proper people, who tie them on 

 the fpot, in the lame manner as was mentioned above of 

 tlie Goondahsj or male elephants, that are taken fingly. 

 Thefe enclofures are all pretty ltrong ; but the third is the 

 ftroiigelt, nor are the elephants deemed fecure, as already 

 ohferved, till they have entered it. This enclofure has, like 

 the other -two, a pretty deep ditch on the inlide; and, upon 



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