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who, being more faithful, and having given him, 

 without wrong, his full measure of rice, the elephant 

 divided it into two parts with his trunk, and when 

 he had eaten one half, he set up his cry again, 

 indicating thereby to all who ran to see what was 

 the matter, the infidelity of the first groom, who 

 acknowledged his crime, for which I caused him to 

 be severely chastised." 



Count de Warren relates the following, which took 

 place in India during the Coorg war, at a time 

 when the writer's brigade was engaged in the bed 

 of a dry mountain torrent : 



" This circumstance enabled us to appreciate the 

 intelligence of the elephants, and their usefulness in 

 the mountains. Having reached a point where the 

 bed of the torrent fell in cascades, it became a 

 question as to the mode of raising the guns up the 

 almost vertical declivity of a granite rock, the- surface 

 of which the waters had worn and polished. The 

 oxen which drew the cannon gave up the attempt 

 after one or two efforts, and lay down, as they 

 always do in desperate cases. 



" It was then determined to send for some 

 elephants of the convoy. Two of the most docile 

 were stripped of their loads and led by their guides 

 to the place where the cannons were left- It was 

 indicated to them by voice and gesture what was 



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