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efforts at resistance. When reluctant they shoved them 

 forward, when violent they drove them back ; when the 

 wild ones threw themselves down, the tame ones butted 

 them with head and shoulders, and forced them up again. 

 And when it was necessary to keep them down, they 



knelt upon them, and prevented them from rising, till the 

 ropes were secured. 



At every moment of leisure they fanned themselves 

 with a bunch of leaves, and the graceful ease with which 

 an elephant uses his trunk on such occasions is very 

 striking. It is doubtless owing to the combination of a 

 circular with a horizontal movement in that flexible limb ; 



