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blood or bruises on his person: but he appeared to be lifeless. 

 The elephant placed him down on the ground, put the 

 pingo on his (the man's) shoulder, steadying both the 

 man and the pingo with his trunk and fore legs. But the 

 man of course did not move or stand up with his pingo. 

 Seeing this, the elephant again raised the cooly and dashed 

 him against the ground, and then trampled the body to a 

 very jelly. This done, he took up the pingo and moved 

 away from the spot ; but at the distance of about a fathom 

 or two, laid it down again, and ripping open one of the 

 bundles, took out of it all the contents, soinans^ cambayas,^ 

 handkerchiefs, and several pieces of white cambrick cloth, 

 all which he tore to small pieces, and flung them wildly 

 here and there. He did the same with all the other pingoes. 

 When this was over the elephant quietly walked away into 

 the jungle, trumpeting all the way as far as I could hear. 

 When danger was past I came out of my concealment, and 

 returned to the place where we had halted that morning. 

 Here the rest of my companions joined me soon after. 

 The next morning we set out again on our journey, our party 

 being now increased by some seven or eight traders from 

 Salpity Corle : but this time we did not meet with the 

 elephant. We found the mangled corpse of our cooly on the 

 same spot where I had seen it the day before, together with 

 the torn pieces of my cloths, of which we collected as fast 

 as we could the few which were serviceable, and all the 

 brass utensils which were quite uninjured. That elephant 

 was a noted rogue. He had before this killed many people 

 on that road, especially those carrying pingoes of coco-nut 

 oil and ghee. He was afterwards killed by an Englishman. 

 The incidents I have mentioned above, took place about 

 twenty years ago." 



' Woman's robe. ^ The figured cloth worn by men. 



