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The Wild Elephant. 



and withdrawing gallons of water, which could only have 

 been contained in the receptacle figured by Camper and 

 Home, and of which the true uses were discerned by the 

 clear intellect of Professor Owex. I was not, till very 

 recently, aware that a similar obser\^ation as to this re- 

 markable habit of the elephant, had been made by the 

 author of the Ayeen Akbcr\\ in his account of the Fed 

 Kanck, or elephant stables of the Emperor Akbar, in 

 which he says, "an elephant frequently ^vith his trunk 

 takes water out of his stomach and sprinkles himself 



UATER-CELLS IN THE j-TO.MALil OF THE CAMEL. 



with it, and it is not in the least offensive. ^ Forbes, in 

 his Oriental Memoirs, quotes this passage of the Ayeen 

 Akbcry, but without a remark ; nor does any European 

 writer with whose works I am acquainted appear to have 

 been cognisant of the peculiarity in question. 



It is to be hoped that Professor Owen's dissection of 



' Ayeen Akhery, transl. by Gladwin, vol. i. pt. i. p. 147. 



