THE ELEPHANT. T3CJ 



wild Elephants refused to do as they were bid, 

 the men made signs to the tame ones to beat them; 

 which they did thus : one of them banged the re- 

 fractory Elephant about the head with his trunk, 

 and if he offered to make any resistance, the other 

 thwacked him on the other side ; so that the poor 

 animal, not knowing what to do, was at length con- 

 strained to become obedient *." 



It has been stated, that the sagacity of the Ele- 

 phant is so great, and his memory so retentive, that 

 when once he has received an injur}^, or been in 

 bondage and afterwards escaped, it is not possible, 

 by any art, again to entrap him. The following 

 instances recorded in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions for 1 799, will prove however that this is not 

 the fact : — 



" A female Elephant was first taken in the year 

 3765, by Rajah Jiishun Maimick^ who, about six 

 months after, gave her to Ahdoor Rezah, a man of 

 some rank and consequence in the district. In 

 3767, the Rajah sent a force against thi^ u^hdoor 

 Rezah, for some refi-actory conduct, who, in his 

 retreat to the hills, turned the above mentioned 

 beast loose into the woods, after havinp- used 



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her above two years as a riding Elephant. She 

 was afterwards retaken ; but broke loose in a 

 stormy night, and again escaped. In the year 

 1782, above ten years after her second escape, 

 she was driven by the Elepliant-hunters belonging 

 to Mr. Leeke, of Longford-hall, in Shropshire, into 



* A mode of taming Elephants somewhat similar to this, is uow 

 prattissd in the i-.laKd of Ccyiou. ThaHlerg, iv. '24'2. 



