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CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



airman who hail resided lit Ceylon went to the Zoological Gardens. There was at that time 

 an elephant, a native of that island, belonging to the Society, in the Gardens ; but at first he took no 

 n..;i,-e ..I' this nentlemaii. When, however, the poor animal heard himself addressed in the Cingalese 

 tongue, he exhibited the most unequivocal signs of joy; turning his trunk about, and caressing his new 

 friend with all the delight of one who, " in a strange laud," welcomes the arrival of another from his 

 native country. 



That elephants are susceptible of the most tender attachment to one another, is evinced by the 

 following occurrence : Two very young elephants a male and female were taken from the Island 



SIlUUTlMi KLEPHAXTS. 



of Ceylon to Holland. They had been separated from each other, in order to be conveyed from the 

 Il.iL'M,. tn Paris, where a spacious stable had been constructed for them. This was divided into two 

 ei)iii|.artiiieiits, which were connected by means of a trap-door. Both of the divisions were surrounded 

 with strung wooden paling. The morning after their arrival, they were taken to this habitation the 

 mule i-le|ili!int being introduced first. With an air of suspicion he examined the place, tried each of 

 the beams by shaking it with his trunk, to ascertain if it were fast; and he endeavoured to turn round 

 tin- lai-i.',- wrewi whirl, held them on the outside, but this he found to be impracticable. When he 

 OMU to the trap-door, brtwren the two partitions, he discovered that it was secured only by a perpen- 



