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Mode of taking wild elephants. 



but finding the entrance, through which they lately 

 passed, barricadoed up, and seeing no opening, 

 except the gateway leading to the next enclosure, 

 they, at length, pass through, and are, soon after- 

 wards, forced into the last enclosure. Being now 

 completely surrounded, and perceiving no means 

 of escape, the elephants appear outrageous, and 

 frequently rush toward the ditch, in order to 

 break down the palisades, screaming louder than 

 any trumpet, and sometimes growling like the 

 murmur of distant thunder; but wherever they 

 make an attack they are opposed by blazing 

 fires, and the triumphant shouts of the hunters. 

 When they find all their exertions fruitless, they 

 continue sulky, and seem to meditate their 

 escape; but the hunters form an encampment 

 around them ; watchmen are posted close to the 

 palisades; and every possible precaution is used 

 to prevent them from breaking loose. 



After the herd has remained a few days in the 

 keddah, the doors of an outlet called the roomee 

 are opened, and one of the elephants is enticed 

 to enter, by having food thrown first before, and 

 then further on into the passage. When the 

 animal has passed beyond the gate, a person 

 from without shuts it by pulling a string, and-se- 

 cures it first by throwing two bars across it on 

 each side, and afterwards by pushing horizontal 

 bars through the openings of the palisades, both 

 before and behind those crosses. Alarmed at the 

 noise that is made in shutting the gate, the ele- 



