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CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



i-iit. ml tin' tent witli a heavv tivad, eonlorniably to the instinct ions he liad received in this branch of 

 Indian eti.pirtte. 



The Kmperor .laliaiii,'in-ir states, in his autobiography, that when the province of Berar, in the 

 Deccan, was surrendered to his authority, there were sent to him, as a symbol of submission, a 







THE ELEPHANT OF INDIA. 



train of elephants, four hundred in number, each one furnished with caparisons, chains, collars, and 

 bells, all of gold, and each laden, besides, with gold to the value of nearly,9,000 of our money! Such 

 accounts nui^t appear to Knmpeans ludicrously extravagant; but there is abundant proof that the 

 wealth oftlii> emperor was prodigious. 



