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ploughs, waggons, &c. He draws equally, and 

 never turns reftive, provided he is not infulted 

 with improper chaftifement, and the people who 

 labour with him have the air of being pleafed 

 with the manner in which he employs his 

 ftfeno-th. The man who conducts the animal 

 generally rides on his neck, and ufes an iron 

 rod *, hooked at the end, or a bodkin, with which 

 he pricks the head or fides of the ears, in order 

 to pulh the creature forward, or to make him 

 turn. But words are generally fufficient t» efpe- 

 cially if the animal has had time to acquire a 

 complete acquaintance with his conductor, and 

 to put entire confidence in him. The attach- 

 ment of the elephant becomes fometimes fo 

 ftrong, and his affection fo warm and durable, 

 that he has been known to die of forrow, when, 



in 



do more ? Voyaged' Orient, du P. Philippe de latres-fainie Trini- 



ti, p. 367. 



* The conductor rides on the elephant's neck, and ufes no 

 bridle, reins, or any kind of famulus, but only a large iron rod, 

 fharp and hooked at the end, with which he fpurs on the ani- 

 mal, and likewife directs the way, by pricking his ears, muzzle, 

 and other places that have mod fenfibility. This rod, which 

 would kill any other animal, is hardly fufficient to make an im- 

 preffion on the {kin of the elephant, or to keep him in fubjeclion 

 when irritated j Voyage de Pietro della Valle, torn. 4. /. 247.-— 

 Two fervants, the one mounted on the neck, and the other on 

 the crupper, manage the elephant, by means of a large iron 

 hook; Premier ■voyage du P. Tackard, p. 273. 



f Non fraeno aut habenis aut aliis vinculis regitur bellua, fed 

 infidentis voci obfequitur ; Vartoman. apud Gefner, cap. ds Els* 

 fhanto. 



