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(a). The Guddeyla may be of felt covered above Avith gunny 

 or stout doosootce, below with coarse cloth or quilted cloth about 

 IJ inches thick and six feet square, thus reaching half way down 

 the animals sides and from nape of neck to croup. It should be 

 large enough to allow of the ends foldiug under the guddee, 

 front and rear, to keep it level (Hood). 



fbj. The guddee or pad used at Hoonsoor consisted of two 

 bags of gunny filled with rushes each 4 or 5 feet long, 1 thick, 

 and 2 broad, and joined sideways at each extremity. That in 

 common use is only a pad 9 inches in thickness, 5 feet broad, 6 

 feet long consisting of stout sacking stuffed with grass. " The 

 outer case should be of stout upcountry path, sewn with, strong 

 skin — each elephant should have his own guddee j he should 

 wear it a few days when collecting fodder, it will thus become 

 limp and its upper surface can be filled with a thin layer of grass 

 to prevent the solah cutting through the cloth. The sides of the 

 guddee where the ropes press should be protected witb leather 

 or bamboo" (Hood). 



(c). Over this the neem guddi, resembling a small Hoonsoor pad, 



is sometimes placed — and the whole retained by a loading rope 



which is specially arranged to form girth, croup and breast strap 



as follows " one end is converted into a loop, sufficiently large 



nearly to surround the body of the animal and the pads. It is 



tied on the top, the double rope is thence passed simply round 



the neck, then along the upper sides of the pads, then below the 



tail, and finally tied again at the place of the first knot on the 



top" (Gilchrist). The average weight of the whole is 200 lbs. 



Sanderson's Elephant Pad or Saddk * consists of 2 pads or 



pillows entirely detached, each 4 feet long, 15 inches wide, and 



6 inches thick, consisting of blanket covered with tarpaulin and 



encased in stout sacking. One of these is placed on each side of 



the spine and retained by two connecting arches of T iron. There 



arc rings for the breast strap and crupper to hook on and these 



only come into play in steep ground. The girtb hooks on to the 



saddle on the off side and is dra-\vn tight on the near by a rope 



6 feet long. In G. 0., 23rd August 1882, No. 4502 of Madras, 



Sanderson's Elephant Equipment is dealt with in detail — Part I, 



* Vide his paper in Journal of the United Service Institution of India- 

 July 1880. 



