io IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. 



had again approached and, close-packed behind her, 

 had cut off her retreat. She had the tusks of Jung 

 before her and six tame elephants jostling her 

 behind. The famous noosers, Gunnee and Fuzlee, 

 were soon down, and had the hobbles round her hind 

 legs. To these a great hawser was attached, and 

 two of the tame elephants taking the end of 

 the hawser in their trunks commenced to drag her 

 away from the gate. Her efforts to break from the 

 hawser were truly marvellous. She would throw her- 

 self flat on the ground with legs spread far apart, 

 and roll clean over on her back. Then she would 

 rise suddenly and throw up her hind legs, exactly 

 like a horse kicking. Again she would rise high 

 in the air, supported on a single foot, and with 

 trunk uplifted trumpet shrilly. I had often seen 

 ancient Hindoo carvings representing elephants in 

 positions that I thought to be impossible and to 

 exist only in the designer's imagination, but after 

 what I saw at the kheddahs I know that the sculp- 

 tors were close observers, and that the seemingly im- 

 possible poses are really true to nature. These huge 

 unwieldy brutes seem to have no joints, or rather 

 one universal joint, as they can turn and twist in 

 a manner that is truly astonishing. As all efforts 

 to drag the recalcitrant female to a tree were un- 

 availing she was left for the time while the other 

 five were secured. Some were hobbled and dragged 

 to a tree, and there made fast. Others were lassoed 

 and secured between two tame elephants, and led 

 out of the enclosure and fastened to posts. It was 

 now about noon and the beaters had gone off to get 



