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two or three brutes together, whilst in a supreme state 

 of alarm they remain huddled together in a heap, and 

 apparently looking to each other for some luminous 

 explanation as to where on earth they have got to. 

 It never enters their heads to break down the kraal, 

 which they might very easily accomplish. 



The party located in the trees sometimes take their 

 guns to get a shot at the animals before they enter 

 the kraal, but this is not legitimate sport. 



When each animal has been bound with cords to 

 his next neighbour, other trained elephants are con- 

 ducted to the scene of action, and one of these is in- 

 trusted with the tutelage of two or three of the 

 recently captured ones, whom he immediately leads off 

 into captivity captive ; should they show any obsti- 

 nacy or disinclination to accompany their new tutor, 

 he inflicts such a belabouring on the miscreants with 

 his proboscis, as soon makes them roar for mercy. 

 The same means are adopted to teach them to work, 

 except that one pupil is then placed between two 

 preceptors, by which means he gets a double dose of 

 correction administered, and a most amusing sight is 

 it to witness this teaching their young ideas to work 

 at the hands of their own species. 



After having been properly trained, the cost of an 

 elephant is, on the average, about 30/. The Ceylon 

 elephant is considerably smaller than its African 

 brother, nine or ten feet being the extreme height of 

 the former. 



I could fill an entire volume with anecdotes of these 



