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character and conduct of wild pigs,’ unless, indeed, it be an occasional 
lapse into carrion diet. 
All these beasts get in between the asses and the horses and mules, 
which have over forty pages, full mostly of matter outside our 
subject. After them come the elephants, of whom we get some good 
stories. One is Colonel Lewin’s, who found the elephants’ ball-room 
in some Indo-Chinese forest (but it was not a ball night), And a 
very good characteristic one is that of a ship-load of elephants (in India 
we sometimes do things on a largish scale), who found that by merely 
keeping time they could turn a large steamer into a suitable rocking 
chair. They very nearly managed to produce the very oddest 
shipwreck on record. How would “Lloyd’s” hold that an ordinary 
insurance policy covered perils of playful elephants ? 
After Mr. Kipling’s elephants come his camels, and he makes just 
remark upon the wide range of variety of these poor brutes, and 
notes the rudimentary second hump of the dromedary recorded by 
Signor Lombardini. One odd little illustration of his own observation 
does not seem to have come in his way. If there is anything odious 
and even dangerous to most hill or plain camels, it isslime. But 
camels can be and are bred in marshes, and these grow up “ bog 
trotters.” The present writer has seen such a camel carrying two men 
at least five miles an hour across the Little Ran of Kachh, where 
footmen painfully toiled along at little better than two, not without 
an occasional fall, 
The strangest thing about the camel is, that an animal so very 
undomesticable hardly exists except in servitude, borne with exceed- 
ing ill-grace. It may be guessed that the clumsiness and stupidity 
of the original wild camel led to the extermination by the great carni- 
yora of such camels as had not the aid of man in the struggle for 
existence. As far as diet and clothing go the creature would seem 
capable enough of survival. 
“The camel,” say the men of Gujarat who understand him in his 
quiddity, “ put a hump upon his back,” with a view to avoiding his 
share of the mutual obligation, ‘ But then the man made his saddle.” 
The application is to the sulky hopeless opposition met at every 
clumsy turn by superior resource, which marks the struggle of civili- 
sation with barbarism, and ends by the reduction of the savage into 
