AMONG the various modes of attacking the elephant, we 

 have recently noticed one practiced by certain hunters in 

 India, which is approaching him in the rear, with a very 

 heavy sharp cleaver, and giving him a severe cut on the hind 

 leg. When the tenders of both hind legs have been slashed in 

 this manner, he falls and becomes an easy prey to the hunter. 



A British officer not long since described a hunt after these 

 beasts in the following animated style. Early one afternoon 

 the Hottentots arrived with the oxen, and we proceeded with- 

 out loss of time to the eastward, following the course of the 

 mountains through very high grass, and passing between two 

 conical hills of singular appearance, which stood like senti- 

 nels on either hand. After crossing six inconsiderable 

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