74 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
rows of heavy stakes, leading from the trap to the 
stocks. Also, next the trap, a small enclosure, four 
or five feet wide by fifteen long, is built at the end 
of the passageway formed by the stakes. The piles 
of the trap are removed from the entrance to this 
enclosure and bars are substituted. Since the ele- 
phants were given practically no food during the 
time they were kept in the trap, they were half 
starved when the breaking commenced. In their 
weakened condition they were much less dangerous 
to handle, and, too, they could then be fed in such 
a way as to impress upon them the fact that good 
behavior brings good treatment. 
The young elephants required no breaking, and 
so they were lured from the trap with food. They 
roamed about the camp, playing and watching op- 
erations. 
As soon as the tuskers were taken from the trap, 
they were killed for their. ivory. The tusks were 
worth almost as much as I could get for the live 
animals, and tusks are far easier to handle than 
animals that have to be broken and fed. Also, as 
the animal dealers say, the elephant might “eat and 
die.” I did the killing with my express rifle. The 
explosive bullets produced instant death. Another 
way of killing an elephant is to strangle him by 
running two ropes around his neck and having 
elephants pull him in opposite directions. 
As soon as all the equipment for breaking was 
ready, I instructed the natives in their work. With 
