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a fire out, and she would perform what I have never 

 known any other elephant do, and that was, after a 

 buffalo's throat had been cut, except the vertebrae, 

 when ordered to do so, she would place a ponderous 

 foot on the neck, twist her trunk round the horns, 

 wrench the head off, and hand it up to the mahout. 

 I had one elephant that did not care two pins for 

 a tiger or buffalo, but if she saw a pony or horse 

 cantering towards her, she would almost go into a 

 fit with fear and run for her life. 



See your elephants fed in front of you every day. 

 The rice should be wrapped up in balls of plantain 

 stems, which are always procurable, because after a tree 

 has borne fruit once, it is of no further use, and the 

 people do not object to its being cut down. The 

 usual allowance for a shooting elephant is a seer for 

 every foot of its height. Whilst you are out shooting, 

 the second attendant of the elephant should cut down or 

 otherwise collect its green food, which either some of 

 the spare animals can bring in, or the shooting ele- 

 phants themselves after the howdah has been removed. 

 Before starting for a day's shooting, see that your 

 howdah is tightly and straightly put on ; if it is 

 crooked in the slightest degree have it taken off and 

 re-adjusted, for it is better to have it done properly 

 in camp where you have men to assist, than to have 

 to do it in the jungle where you have none ; and it is 

 impossible to shoot out of an improperly placed howdah 

 with any degree of comfort or any certainty. A howdah 

 should be as light as possible consistent with strength. 

 Double howdahs, that is for holding two men one 

 in front and an attendant behind are in my opinion 

 abominations, and now that breechloaders are uni- 



