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this courfe he repeats every day infallibly 

 during the whole of the party. 



The other principal objed:s of the Na-. 

 bob's fport are, wild elephants, buffaloes, 

 and rhinoceros. 



I was prefent two years ago at the chace 

 of a wild elephant of prodigious fize and 

 ftrength. The plan nril: followed, was to 

 endeavour to take him alive by the affiftance 

 of the tame elephants, who tried to furround 

 him, whilft he was kept at bay by fire- 

 works, fuch as crackers, porte- fires, &c. 

 but he always got off from them, notwith- 

 ffanding the drivers upon fome of the tame 

 elephants got fo near as to throw noozes of 

 very ffrong ropes over his head, and endea- 

 voured to detain him by faftening them 

 round trees, but he fnapped them like 

 packthread, and held on his way towards 

 the foreff. The Nabob then ordered fome 

 of the ffrongell: and moft furious of his 

 fighting elephants to be brought up to him. 

 As foon as one of them came near him, he 

 turned and charged him with dreadful fury -, 

 fo much foj^that in the ffruggle with one of 

 them he broke one of his tufks by the mid- 



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