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head ; and an elephant like this will bring wealth and comfort 

 to its master. 



An elephant with a short lobe to the ear, the fold of the 

 ear turning outwards and the ear itself being short ; that rocks 

 itself to and fro when standing, that swings its trunk and its 

 tail, and wags its head as it walks ; an elephant like this is not 

 good and will eventually bring loss upon its owner and its own 

 life will be short. 



An elephant is a good one if it has the following points, the 

 lower lip close to the upper lip, the lobe to the ear close to the 

 cheek, and the folds of the ear and the tip of the ear turning 

 inwards. 



An elephant with twenty white and closely set toes, a 

 long under lip and large testicles is a very good and lucky one. 



If the protuberances on the elephant's head are twelve in 

 number, or if it has fourteen toes, or fifteen toes, or if the hairs 

 of its tail grow in two different ways, or if the tip of its tongue 

 is black or its eyes red, the snimalis an evil brute that will 

 bring ill health and sickness upon any one that keeps it. 



An elephant with protuberances on its tail, and under its 

 chin and with all its toes black is no good, neither is one with 

 protuberances on its ears especially if they be black or red like 

 blood. 



An elephant with a black roof to its mouth or with black 

 at the base of its tongue is no good. 



It is a good sign in an elephant . if after eating it carefully 

 places in front of it all the food that is left over. It is a bad 

 sign if it scatters its superfluous food right and left. 



It is a very bad thing for an elephant to have its tusks 

 streaked with black or red, or to have tusks that cross one 

 another or that curve outwards. 



This is the end of the book of mantras used in connexion 

 with elephants, finished on the 27th day of Rajab 1296 ; taken 

 from the mantras of Tunku Mantri Ibrahim bin Jafar, which are 

 in the possession of Che Pandak Abdullah and committed to 

 writing by Toh Sarif Aman ; mantras which have come down 



B. A, Soc, No. 45. 1905. 



