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cry out for the male. The male very readily answers the cry, 

 and hastens to join her ; which the keeper perceiving, obliges 

 her to retreat, still repeating the same cry, until she leads the 

 animal into the enclosure already described, which shuts the 

 moment he is entered. Still, however, the female proceeds 

 calling and inviting, while the male proceeds forward in the en- 

 closure, which grows narrower all the way, and until the poor 

 animal finds himself completely shut up, without the power of 

 either advancing or retreating ; the female in the meantime being 

 li't out by a private way, which she has been previously accus- 

 tomed to. The wild elephant, upon seeing himself entrapped 

 in this manner, instantly attempts to use violence ; and, upon 

 seeing the hunters, all his former desires only turn to fury. In 

 the meantime, the hunters, having fixed him with cords, attempt 

 to soften his indignation, by throwing buckets of water upon 

 him in great quantities, rubbing the body with leaves, and pour- 

 ing oil down bis ears. Soon after, two tame elephants are 

 brought, a male and a female, that caress the indignant animal 

 with their trunks ; while they still continue pouring water to re- 

 fresh it. At last a tame elephant is brought forward, of that 

 number which is employed in instructing the new-comers, and an 

 officer riding upon it, in order to show the late captive that it has 

 nothing to fear. The hunters then open the enclosure ; and 

 while this creature lead*-, the captive along, two more are joined 

 on either side of it, and these compel it to submit. It is then 

 tied by cords to a massy pillar, provided for that purpose, and 

 suffered to remain in that position for about a day and a nighty 

 until its indignation be wholly subsided. The next day it be- 

 gins to be somewhat submissive ; and in a fortnight is complete- 

 ly tamed like the rest. The females are taken when accompany- 

 ing the males ; they often come into these enclosures, and they 

 shortly after serve as decoys to the rest. But the method of 

 taking the elephant differs, according to the abilities of the hunter : 

 the negroes of Africa, who hunt this animal merely for its flesh, 

 are content to take it in pit-falls ; and often to pursue it in the 

 defiles of a mountain, where it cannot easily turn, and so wound 

 it from behind till it falls.* 



* Elephant hunts are Ciirriid on in different modes iu different parts <>f 

 India, and according as it is intended to seciu-e a single animal or the whole 

 herd. 



