MANTRA GAJAH. 45 



Tali Teronching — A broad rattan band round the elephant's 

 hind legs. From it a twisted rattan rope ties the hind 

 legs to any convenient tree or post. 



Tali Pul — A rattan which ties each fore leg to the anak chelong. 

 [Thus the elephant is in this helpless condition — its 

 neck is firmly nipped and held in by two posts, its 

 sides are wedged between beams, and a beam runs 

 under its chest j its fore legs are not only tied together 

 but also tied to the posts that hold its neck, while as 

 an additional precaution the chanang prevents any 

 possible movement ; the hind legs are tied together, 

 and also attached to convenient posts. 



When one understands what this means, and realizes 

 that a forest caught elephant undergoes from forty to 

 a hundred days of this treatment (the hundred days, 

 let it be understood, being the limit not of the ele- 

 phant's refusal to submit to training but of its tena- 

 city of life) it is not difficult to believe that the epi- 

 taph of great percentage of forest caught elephants 

 is " mati dalam chelong" — it died in the stocks."] 



Tali Tegun — When the elephant is first taken out of the stocks 

 down to the water to bathe, it bears a skeleton frame 

 work of rattans, in the form of the harness of the 

 panniers (rengka) that it is to be taught to wear. 

 The rattans are fitted on to its neck, round its belly, 

 under its tail in exactly the same way as the rengka 

 harness. This frame work, which is termed tali tegun, 

 serves the double purpose making the animal ac- 

 customed to the feel of the harness and of allowing 

 the trainer a safe hold for his scrambles up to, over, 

 and down from, his charge. 



Saluar — When an elephant first leaves the chelong it wears, 

 suspended from the tali tegun, a loose rattan round 

 each leg. These are known as saluar (trousers) and 

 by means of them to animal if it becomes obstre- 

 perous can easily be tied up. 



R. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



