THE ELEPHANT. 11 



which differs in different countries, and accor- 

 ding to the (hength and dexterity of the people 



B 3 who 



and filed off one by one into the narrow alley at the other 

 end. The wild elephant, who had followed them all along, 

 ftopt at the entrance of this defile. Every method was tried 

 to make him enter. The females, who were now beyond thi 

 alley, were made to cry. Some Siamefe irritated him, by 

 clapping their hands, and crying f?at, pat. Others teaze him 

 with long poles armed with fharp points ; and, when purfued* 

 they flip through between the pofts, and conceal thenrfelv.eS 

 behind the pallifade, which the elephant cannot furmount. 

 Lailly, after having purfued feveral hunters in vain, he Tingles 

 otit one, whom he fets upon with extreme fury. This n 

 runs into the narrow alky, and the elephant follows him, 

 But, he no fooner enters than he perceives himfelf to be in a 

 fnare ; for the man efcapes, and two portcullifes, one before 

 and another behind, are inftantly let fall ; fo that, being 

 able either to advance or retreat, the animal makes the moffe 

 aftonilhing efforts, and raifes the moll hideous cries. The ban - 

 ters endeavour to footh him by throwing pails of water on his 

 body, by rubbing Kim with leaves, by pouring oil upon his 

 ears, and by bringing to him tamed elephants, both n 

 female, who carefs him with their trunks. The] 

 however, round his body and hind legs, to enable them to 

 drag him out, and they continue to throw water en his trunk 

 and body, in order to refrefh him. In fine, a tamed elephant, 

 accuitomed to inftruct noviciates, is made to approach him. 

 The former is mounted by a fervant, who mal . . animal 

 advance and retire, to fhow the wild elephant that he has no- 

 thing to fear, and that he may go out. The port is then e- 

 pened, and he follows his neighbour to the end of the alley. 

 "When there, two elephants are tied, one to each fide of him 

 another marches before, leads him in the way they want him 

 to go, while a third pufhes him behind with its head, till they 

 arrive at a kind of fhade, where he is tied to a large poll, which 

 turns round like the capftan of a (hip. There he is left till next 

 day, to allow his rage to fubfide. But, while he frets around 

 this poll, a Bramin, one of thofe Indian prlefts who are ex- 

 tremely 



