THE ELEPHANT. Sq 



more ungovernable than this female. In a ftate 

 of repofe, the genitals of the male appear not ex- 

 ternally : His belly feems to be perfectly fmooth ; 

 and it is only at the time of difcharging urine, 

 that the extremity of the penis comes out of the 

 meath. This male elephant, though equally 

 young with the female, was, asformerlv remark- 

 ed, more difficult to manage. He endeavoured 

 to lay hold of people who approached too near, 

 and often tore their clothes. Even his governours 

 were obliged to act with caution ; bin the female 

 obeyed with complacence and alacrity. The on- 

 ly time me exhibited marks of difpleafnre was 

 when her keepers forced her into a covered wag- 

 gon, in order to be carried from one town to an- 

 other. When they wanted her to enter, fhe 

 refufed to advance, and they could only accom- 

 plifh their purpofe by pricking her behind. Ir- 

 ritated by this ill treatment, and being unable to 

 turn herfelf in her prifpn, fhe had no other me- 

 thod of revenge but to till her trunk with water, 

 and throw it in torrents upon thole who had 

 teazed her. 



I remarked, in the hiftory of the elephant *. 

 that thefe animals probably did not copulate in 

 the manner of other quadrupeds ; becaufe the 

 poiition of the organs in both fexes feemed to 

 require that the female, in order to receive the 

 male, mould lie on her back. This conjecture, 

 which appeared to be plauiible, is not true ; for 



the 



* See above, p. 59. 



