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Before proceeding to catch tlie others, we requested 

 tliat the smaller trees and jungle, which partially ob- 

 structed our view, might be broken away, being no 

 longer essential to screen the entrance to the corral : five 

 of the tame elephants were brought up for the pui-pose. 

 They felt the strength of each tree with their trunks, 

 then swajang it backwards and forwards, by pushing it 

 with their foreheads, they watched the opportunity 

 when it was in full motion to raise their fore-feet against 

 the stem, and bear it down to the ground. Then tearing 

 off the festoons of chmbing plants, and tramphng down 

 the smaller branches and brushwood, they pitched them 

 with their tusks, and piled them into heaps along the side 

 of the fence. 



Amongst the last that was secured was the sohtary 

 indi\'idual belonging to the fugitive herd. When they 

 attempted to drag him backwards from the tree near 

 which he was noosed, he laid hold of it with his trunk 

 and lay down on his side immoveable. The temple 



tusker and another were ordered up to assist, and it 

 required the combined efforts of the three elephants to 



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