Dislike to the Horse. 1 3 



horse has an antipathy to the camel, and evinces extreme 

 impatience, both of the sight and the smell of that ani- 

 mal.* When enraged, an elephant will not hesitate to 

 charge a rider on horseback ; but it is against the man, 

 not against the horse, that his fury is directed; and no 

 instance has been ever known of his wantonly assailing a 

 horse. A horse belonging to the late Major Rogers^ had 

 lam away from his groom, and was found some consider- 

 able time afterwards grazing quietly with a herd of ele- 

 phants. In De Bry's splendid collection of travels, how- 

 ever, there is included The voyage of a certaiii Ejigtis/i- 

 man to Cambay ; in which the author asserts that at Agra, 

 in the year 1607, he was present at a spectacle given by 

 the viceregent of the great Mogul, in the course of which 

 he saw an elephant destroy two horses, by seizing them in 

 its trunk, and crushing tliem with his tusks and feet.-'' 

 But this display was avowedly an artificial one, and the 

 creature must have been cruelly trained and tutored for 

 the occasion. 



' This peculiarity was noticed by the one of them is excessive." — Note-book 

 ancients, and is recorded by Herodotus: of a Naturalist, ch. iv. p. 113. 

 Kdfir)Kov iTTTTos (^o^eerat, koI ovk av- = Major Rogers was many years the 

 e'xeTat ovre Tr\v iSeSjv avTrjs opiiav ovt€ chief civil officer of the Ceylon Govern- 

 T-qv 6&ixy]v 6aii>po.Lv6nf:Vo<;. (Herod, i. ment in the district of Ouvah, where he 

 80.) Camels have long been bred by was killed by lightning, 1845. 

 the Grand Duke of Tuscany, at his ^ .. Quifj^m etiam cum equis silves- 

 establishment near Pisa, and even there tribus pugnant. Saepe unus elephas 

 the same instinctive dislike to them is cum sex equis committitur ; atque ipse 

 manifested by the horse, which it is adeo interfui cum unus elephas duos 

 necessary to train and accustom to their equos cum primo impetu protinus pro- 

 presence in order to avoid accidents. sternerit ; — injecta enim jugulisipsorum 

 Mr. Broderip mentions, that, " when longa proboscide, ad se protractos, den- 

 the precaution of such training has not tibus porro comminuit ac protrivit." 

 been adopted, the sudden and dan- (Angli ctijusdam in Cambay am navi- 



gerous terror with which a horse is gatio. De Bry, Coll. etc. vol. iii. 



seized in coming unexpectedly upon ch. xvi. p. 31.) 



