131 THE ELEPHANT. 



quench their thirst and cool themselves, which they 

 do by drawing the water into their trunks, and then 

 3qmrting it over every part of their bodies. 



When the Elephants have continued in the in- 

 closure a few days^ where they are regularly, 

 though scantily, fed from a scaffold on the outside, 

 the door of the Roomee (an outlet about sixty feet 

 long and very narrow) is opened, and one of 

 the Elephants is enticed to enter by haying food 

 thrown before it *. When the animal has ad- 

 vanced far enough to allow it, the gate is shut and 

 well secured on both sides. Finding his retreat now 

 cut off, and the place so narrow that he cannot turn 

 himself, he advances, and exerts his utmost efforts 

 to break down the bars in front of him, running a- 

 gainst them, screaming and roaring most violently, 

 and battering them, hke a ram, by repeated blows 

 with his head, retreating and advancing with the 

 utmost fury. In his rage he even rises up, and leaps 

 upon the bars with his fore-feet, striving to break 

 them dov^ n with his huge weight. When he be- 

 comes somewhat fatigued with these exertions, ropes 

 are, by degrees, put round him ; and he is secured 

 in a manner nearly similar to that adopted in taking 

 the single males. And thus, in succession, they 

 ^re all secured. 



The Elephants are now separated, and each put 



* In many places this mode is not adopted ; but as soon as the herd 

 lias been surrounded by a strong palisade, Koomkees are sent in with 

 proper people, wlio tie them on the spot, in the manner \vc have men- 

 tioned respecting the single male Elejihants. 



