The CMrjameh is like an "Outside" car without tho "WoU. 

 Some pads are couvertiblo into riding saddles by addition of foot 

 boards Sanderson has introduced a special ndmg saddle or 

 charjama which " seats four people comfortably, has large leather 

 wallets for clothes and odds and ends j and weighs only 120 lbs." 



Indian Commissariat Code : Appendix 41, para. 1780 gives the 

 Regulation Scale of Elephant Gear (approximately) as follows :— 



(a) 1 Guddeyla of quilted numbda. 



(fc) 1 Guddee of strong gunny stuffed with rushes, or with 

 SJiola (which is lighter). 



(c) 1 Neem guddi (or iron saddle in lieu). 



{d) 1 Jhool. 



(e) 1 Neck rope* and Kellawa "» Certain portions of these 



(f) 1 Girth rope and Paytie J ropes are sheathed with lea- 



ther to prevent abrasion of the skin. An iron tabp 

 to surround the rope under the tail to prevent galling 

 is under trial. Oil is allowed for soaking the leather 

 arocnd the ropes, also for the rope under th? tail. 



{g) 1 Load rope. 



(h) 1 Ratib bag (Dana-khorie). 



(i) 1 Tawah (Iron Chupatti plate). 



CjJ 1 Leather bucket or dolchi, with rope. 



(k) 1 Bherie or Undhoo — a hobble for the fore feet. 



(J) 1 Bhundunf or lungur— a long chain for fastening the 

 hind leg. 



(m) 1 Kanass for fastening the bherie to the ground. 



(« ^ o) 1 Iron gumaila and 1 broom per elephant, as line gear. 



fpj 1 Sirhee or head cover per elephant" 



(q) 1 Akree. 



(r) 1 Spear to four elephants 



(s) 1 SuUetah. _, 



(Small neck bells are useful in the jungle in the event oi the 

 animal getting loose at night). 



♦ These ropes should be of jute and not too tightly twisted; handmade 

 ones are the best. Cotton ropes (2 in.) axe necessary for Houdahs, Ij in. 

 for Cliarjahmelis (Hood). Kellawas are rings united by plaited rope used 

 as stirrups. Payties are, properly, breastplates of well tanned thick cowhide 

 through which the rope that passes round the elephant's body goes. 



t Hood considers 2 Bhunduns necessary and insists that all these chaiuB 

 be as light aa ia coaaistcnt with the necessary strength. 



(In Bombay). 



