302 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
THERE now remained but two elephants of thofe that 
had been difcovered, which were a fhe one with a calf. ° 
The Agageer would willingly have let thefe alone, as the — 
teeth of the female are very {mall, and the young one is of 
no fort of value, even for food, its flefh fhrinking much 
upon drying. But the hunters would not be limited in 
their fport. The people having obferved the place of her 
retreat, thither we eagerly followed. She was very foon 
found, and as foon lamed by the Agageers; but when they 
came to wound her with the darts, as every one did in their 
turn, to our very great furprife, the young one, which had 
been fuffered to efcape unheeded and unpurfued, came out 
from the thicket apparently in great anger, running upon ~ 
the horfes and men with all the violence it was matter of. 
I wasamazed; and as much as ever! was, upon fuch an 
occafion, afflicted, at feeing the great affection of the little 
animal defending its wounded mother, heedlefs of its own ~ 
- life or fafety. I therefore cried to them, for God’s fake to 
fpare.the mother, tho’ it was then too late; andthe calf had. 
made feveral rude attacks upon me, which I avoided with- 
out difficulty ; but I am happy, to this day, in the reflection 
that I did not ftrike it. At laft, making one of its attacks 
upon Ayto Engedan, it hurt him a littleon the leg; upon 
which he thruft it through with his lance, as others did 
after, and it then fell dead before its wounded mother, whom _ 
it had fo affectionately defended. It was about the fize of 
an afs, bur round, big-bellied, and heavily made; and was 
f> furious, and unruly, that it would eafily have broken the 
leg either of man or horfe, could it have overtaken them, 
and jofiled againit them properly. 
HERE. 
