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tying both the hind and fore-legs the fourth Koomkee gives afTiftame where 

 neceffary, and the people employed cautioufly avoid going within r_ach of 

 his trunk ; and when he attempts to feize them they retreat to the oppofite' 

 fide of the Koomkees, and get on them, if neceffary, by means of the rope 

 abovementioned, which hangs ready for them to lay hold of. Although b^ 

 thefe means, he is perfe&ly fecured and cannot efcape, yet as it would be 

 both unfafe and inconvenient to allow him to remain in the verge ofthe ; 

 jungle, a number of additional ropes are afterwards put on, as fliall be men- 

 tioned, for the purpofe of conducting him to a proper ftation. When the* 

 Goondah has become more fetded, and eat a little food with which he is 

 iupplied as foon as he is taken, the K&omkees are again brought near, and ; 

 a ilrong rope (Pbara) is then put twice round his body clofeto his fore-legs 

 like a girth, and tied behind his ihoulder j- then the long end is carried back 

 clofe to his rump and there fattened, after a couple of turns mere have been 

 naade round his body. Another cord is next faflened to the Phara and 

 from thence carried under his tail like a crupper (dooblah) and brought 

 forward and faftened by a turn of two, to each of the Pharos or girths, by 

 which the whole is connected, and each turn of thefe cords ferves to keep 

 the reft in their places. After this a ftrong rope (the Voomanj'is put round 

 his buttocks and made fafl on each fide to the girth and crupper, fo as to 

 confine the motion of his thighs and prevent his taking a full ftep. Thefe 

 fmaller ropes being properly adjufted, a couple of large cables (the Booh) 

 with running noofes are put around his neck, and after being drawn mode- 

 rately tights the noofes are fecured from running clofer, and then tied to the 

 ropes on each fide forming the girth and crupper already mentioned j and 

 thus all thefe ropes are connected and kept in their proper places, without 

 any rifk of the noofes of the Dools becoming tight, fo as to endanger the life 

 of the elephant in his exertions to free himfelf. The ends of thefe cables are' 



