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There now remained but two elephants of thofe that 

 had been di (covered, which were a ilie one with a calf. 

 The Agageer would v/illingly have let thefe alone, as the 

 teeth of the female are very fmall, and the young one is of 

 no fort of value, even for food, its llefli Ihrinking much 

 upon drying. But the hunters would not be limited in 

 their fport. The people having obferved the place of her 

 retreat, thither we eagerly followed. She was very foon 

 found, and as foon lamed by the Agageers ; but when they 

 came to wound her with the darts, as every one did in their 

 turn, to our very great furprife, the young one, which had 

 been fuflered to efcape unheeded and unpurfucd, came out 

 from the thicket apparently in great anger, running upon 

 the horfes and men with all the violence it was mailer of. 

 I was amazed ; and as much as ever I was, upon fuch an 

 occafion, afflicT:ed, at feeing the great afTedlion of the little 

 animal defending its wounded mother, heedlefs of its own 

 life or fafety. I therefore cried to them, for God's fake to 

 fpare the mother, tho' it was then too late ; and the calf had 

 made feveral rude attacks upon me, which I avoided with- 

 out difficulty ; but I am happy, to this day, in the reflexion 

 that I did not ftrike it. At laft, making one of its attacks 

 upon Ayto Engedan, it hurt him a little on the leg ; upon 

 which he thruft it through with his lance, as others d^d 

 after, and it then fell dead before its wounded mother, whom 

 it had fo airecT:ionately defended. It was about the fize cf 

 an afs, but round, big-bellied, and heavily made ; and was 

 fo furious, and unruly, that it would eafily have broken the 

 leg either of man or horfe, could it have overtaken them, 

 and jollied againil them properly. 



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