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Their efforts to escape are repressed by the crowd, 

 who drive them back from the stockade with spears 

 and flaming torches ; and at last compel them to pass 

 on into the second inclosure. Here they are detained 

 for a short time, and their feverish exhaustion relieved 

 by free access to water ; — until at last, being tempted 

 by food, or otherwise induced to trust themselves in the 

 narrow outlet, they are one after another made fast by 

 ropes, passed m through the palisade 3 and picketed in 

 the adjoining woods to enter on their course of syste- 

 matic training. 



These arrangements vary in different districts of 

 Bengal ; and the method adopted in Ceylon differs in 

 many essential particulars from them all ; the keddah, 

 or, as it is here called, the corral or koralW^ (from the 

 Portuguese airral^ a " cattle-pen "), consists of but one 

 enclosure instead of three. A stream or watering-place 

 is not uniformly enclosed within it, because, although 

 water is indispensable after the long thirst and ex- 

 haustion of the captives, it has been found that a pond 

 or rivulet within the corral itself adds to the difficulty 

 of leading them out, and increases their reluctance to 

 leave it ; besides which, the smaller ones are often 

 smothered by the others in their eagerness to crowd into 

 the water. The funnel-shaped outlet is also dispensed 

 with, as the animals are liable to bruise and injure them- 

 selves within the narrow stockade ; and should one of 

 them die in it, as is too often the case in the midst of 



' It is thus spelled by Wolf, in his in South America, and especially in 

 Life and Advoit tires, p. 144. Cor>-al La Plata, to designate an ?«(r/i)j?<re_/i>r 

 is at the present day a household word cattle. 



