THE ELEPHANT 



Hunting the Elephant. 





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Wild Elephant left after having been Bound. 



The Indian Elephant is almost invariably taken from its 

 native haunts and then trained. The Indian hunters proceed 

 into the woods with two trained female Elephants. These 

 advance quietly, and by their blandishments so occupy the 

 attention of any unfortunate male that they meet, that the 

 hunters are enabled to tie his legs together and fasten him to 

 a tree. His treacherous companions now leave him to struggle 

 in impotent rage, until he is so subdued by hunger and fatigue 

 that the hunters can drive him home between their two tame 

 Elephants. When once captured he is easily trained. Bribes 

 of sugar and arrack, a kind of spirit, are the usual means of 

 inducing an Elephant to attempt some new art or to labour 

 with particular assiduty. In its wild state it endeavors to 

 gratify its taste for sweets at the expense of the sugar planters. 



The Natives rejoicing over a slain Elephant 





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