102 SHAKESPEARE’S [ ELEPHANT. 
the rising of the sun with certain movings, as they may, 
and then they turn again into woods and launds. Their 
youth is known by whiteness of teeth, of the which teeth 
that one is always working, and that other is spared, lest 
he should wax dull with continual smiting and rubbing, 
but when they be pursued with hunters, then they smite 
both together, and break them, that they be no longer 
pursued, when the teeth be appaired and defoiled {dam- 
aged], for they know that the teeth be cause of their peril. 
And a cave or a ditch is made under the earth, as it were 
a pit-fall in the Elephant’s way, and unawares he falleth 
therein. And then one of the hunters cometh to him, and 
beateth and smiteth him, and pricketh him full sore. And 
then another hunter cometh and smiteth the first hunter, 
and doth him away, and defendeth the Elephant, and giveth 
him barley to eat; and when he hath eaten thrice or four 
times, then he loveth him that defended him, and is after- 
wards mild and obedient to him. And if it happeth that 
he swalloweth a worm that is hight Chameleon, he taketh 
and eateth of wild olive-tree, and is so holp against the 
venom. Also the Elephant’s bones brent [7.e. burnt] chase 
and drive away serpents and all venomous beasts. Also 
there is another thing that is full wonderful ; for among the 
Ethiopians in some countries, Elephants be hunted in this 
wise :—There go in desert two maidens all naked and bare 
with open hair of the head; and one of them beareth a 
vessel, and the other a sword; and these maidens begin to 
sing alone, and the beast hath liking when he heareth their 
song, and cometh to them, and licketh their teats, and 
falleth asleep anon for liking of the song, and then the 
one maid sticketh him in the throat, or in the side with a 
sword, and the other taketh his blood in a vessel, and with 
that blood the people of the same country dye cloth [which 
is called purple—Bartholomew]. 
_ Bartholomew (and Berthelet’s translation), bk. xviii. §§ 42-5. 
Evepnants of all other beasts do chiefly hate the mouse ; 
so that if they shall see or perceive that a mouse hath 
once touched their meat that is before them, they loathe 
the same, and will not eat a bit thereof. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. vi. § 43, 
