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enemy, and, when they are wounded, they turn upon their 
own people, throw them into disorder and trample them to 
death 
Though they do much harm even when unarmed, swords 
are fixed to their trunk, and daggers to their tusks. With 
their proboscis they seize the enemy and either fling them 
aloft, or strike them to the ground, or cast them under their 
feet, where they pull and rend them in twain. Equebar never 
engages all his forces in battle. If he shows himself with 
5,000 men, he has 20,000 lying in ambush, and others behind 
them. If the van is victorious, those in the rear come and 
improve the situation. If they are defeated, the rear-guard 
sustains the brunt of the enemy, whilst those who are routed 
e lands which he conquers he does not properly 
bestow on any one, nor are there hereditary estates among 
the Mogores. All the lands belong to the King. The rest 
regard to the number of soldiers whom each one has in his 
vice. A captain of 12, men receives @ province or 
district, which, over and above his pay, will easily main- 
tain that number of people.- The Lord then distributes the 
eee ereareemennenena fe 
1 The Ain I, 143—148, devotes several chapters to camels. 
2** Dum moratur, duobus ordinibus i i 
, is et munitis equis ac miliiibus caret) Regem 
operiuntur, ac pretereuntem, suo quisque loco, atque ordine salutat.’’ 
g It would seem, then, that the 
