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own accord. A large female, named Ram-Kullee, 

 celebrated at Hurdwar for her cleverness in calming 

 and training the elephants taken in the traps, fled 

 into the jungles on two or three occasions, and each 

 time came back of her own accord. 



VL 



WE have described the method of taking elephants in 

 India, let us now show by one or two examples how 

 they kill them. 



In the wild gorges of Sewalik two natives, a Brin- 

 jara and a Ghoorka, accompanied the hunter, who 

 relates as follows : " We had just thrown ourselves 

 on the ground, exhausted by the heat and want of 

 water, which is very scarce during summer on the 

 northern side of the mountain chain of the Sewalik, 

 when the silence which surrounded us was suddenly 

 interrupted by the cracking of a broken branch. We 

 advanced gently and silently in the direction indi- 

 cated by the noise, and came upon a herd of six 

 large and several young elephants feeding. They 

 had no wind of us, although I had taken no pre- 

 caution in this respect ; and, flapping their large ears, 

 they continued to browse the bushes of the bamboos 

 and other trees around them. After having placed the 



