A FEW ELEPHANT STORIES. 



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regiment of soldiers and a squad of cavalry had been 

 ordered out to do us honor, and hold the crowd back. 

 The interpreter explained to us that it was not properly 



HE SPRANG UPON HIS ADVERSARY'S HEAD AND HELD WITH CLAWS AND TEETH. 



a fight that we were about to witness, but rather a joust, 

 in which the combatants would not try to injure each 

 other seriously, but simply display their strength and 



