72 The Life of an Elephant 



and anxiety of the pursuit and capture had 

 stayed the flow of milk and so destroyed 

 the maternal instincts, it is difficult to assert. 

 At all events the calves wandered round the 

 fettered elephants, finding scant encouragement, 

 save from men who fed them with buffalo milk, 

 hoping to keep them alive, or from the tame 



elephants, which treated them with kindness 

 and affection, so that, if not quite dependent 

 on a nursery diet, there was good chance of 

 their survival. 



Our elephant remained the last to be re- 

 moved from the enclosure, and while there, 

 he had been constantly attended by two tame 

 elephants, who gently frustrated any attempt 

 at restiveness. When the ropes had been 



