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Method of catching wild elephants. 



conveyed in a vessel up the river Waal to Nime- 

 guen, whence they were driven on foot to Loo. 

 The attendants had much difficulty in inducing 

 them to cross the bridge at Arnheim : for although 

 they had fasted for several hours, and a quantity 

 of food was placed for them on the opposite side 

 of the bridge, much time elapsed before they 

 would venture themselves upon it; and at last 

 they would not make any step without first care- 

 fully examining the planks, to see that they were 

 firm. During the time they were kept at Loo 

 they were so perfectly tame, that they were suf- 

 fered to range at liberty; and would sometimes 

 even come into the room at the dinner hour, and 

 take food from the company. After the con- 

 quest of Holland, they were treated with such 

 cruelty by some of the spectators who crowded 

 to visit them, that they lost much of their gen- 

 tleness ; and their subsequent confinement during 

 their removal to Paris, rendered them in some 

 degree ferocious towards spectators. 



The method of catching wild elephants at 

 Tipuri, in the East Indies, as communicated in 

 the Asiatic Researches, by J. Corse, Esq. is well 

 worth the reader's attention. 



" In the month of November, when the wea- 

 ther has become cool, and the swamps and 

 marshes are dried up, the male elephants come 

 from the recesses of the forests, and make noc- 

 turnal excursions into the plains ; where they fre- 

 quently destroy the labours of the husbandman, 



