1 6 The Life of an Elephant 



narrow footway, a beaten track between the 

 scattered villages, and started running with 

 pattering feet and with that renewal of con- 

 fidence which evidence of the neighbourhood 

 of fellow men seems to give to human beings, 

 sometimes quite unjustifiably. The sun was 

 well on the downward path before the man, 



hungry and weary, observed smoke, the proof 

 of the dominance of man over beast, rise in 

 the clear sky. He crossed a stream on a 

 narrow bridge of bamboo, and before him stood 

 the fence of a stockaded village. 



From the inside of the fence proceeded the 

 barking of dogs and the lowing of cattle, the 

 laughter and talking of those engaged in 



