62 ELEPHANT-HUNTING. 



already expired, one ball having penetrated behind 

 its shoulder, and the other through the proboscis 

 into its chest. 



It is only within the last thirty or forty years that 

 the elephants of India and Africa have been com- 

 pared with one another, and found to be as different 

 in species as the sheep is from the goat, or the horse 

 from the ass. The size and habits of the elephants 

 in both countries are nearly the same, but they differ 

 by many external marks which are easily to be dis- 

 tinguished. The ears of the African elephant are 

 much larger, for instance, than those of the Indian : 

 in the latter they are of moderate size, in the former 

 they are quite enormous, and cover the whole 

 shoulder of the animal. The tusks are also larger, 

 particularly in the females. The white ridges of 

 enamel which mark the crowns of the molar teeth 

 are lozenge-shaped in the one, and run in irregular 

 wavy parallel lines across the surface of the tooth 

 in the other ; and finally the Asiatic elephant has 

 five hoofs on the fore-feet, and four on the hind, 

 whilst the African has only four on the fore-feet, and 

 three on the hind. In fact, from our intimate rela- 

 tion with India, we see the Asiatic species brought 

 home almost daily ; but since the time of the Ptole- 

 mies no nation has had sufficient enterprise to do- 

 mesticate the African elephant, or apply it to the pur- 

 poses of war ; though the Egyptians of that period, 

 and, before their time, the Carthaginians and Nu- 



