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mild that the people continue very healthy, and an accident feldom happens 

 except to ftragglers about the outfkirts of the wood, who are fometimes 

 though very rarely carried off by tigers. The Keddah, or place where the 

 her! is to be fecured, is differently conflrucled in different places : here k 

 confifts of three encloiures communicating with each other by means of nar- 

 row openings or gateways. The outer enclofure or the one next to the 

 place, where the eh phants are to enter, is the largelt j the middle ore is ge> 

 nerally, though not always, the next in fize, and the third or funhermoft is 

 the fmalleil : thefe proportions however are not always adhered torn *h£ 

 making of a Keddab, nor indeed does there appear to me any reafm for 

 making three encloiures ; but as my intentions are merely to reLte facts., I in all 

 proceed to obferve, that, when in the third or la& enclofure, the elephants ane 

 then only deemed fecure : here they are kept fix or eight days, and are regularly 

 though fcantily fed from a fcaffold on the outiide, clofe to the entrance cfzm 

 outlet called the Romee, wh.ch is about fixty feet long and very narrow, and 

 through which the eL phants are to be taken out one by one. In many 

 places this mode is not adopted ; for as foon as the herd has been furrounded 

 by a flrong palifade, Kocmkees are fent in with proper people, who tie them 

 on the fpot, in the fame manner as was mentioned above of the Goondahs 

 ©r male elephants that are taken fingly. Thefe enclofures are all pretty 

 ftrong, but the third is the ftrongeft, nor are the elephants deemed fecure, as 

 already obferved, till they have entered it. Thi; enclofure has, like the other 

 two, a pretty deep ditch on the infide ; and upon the bank of earth, hat is 

 thrown up from the excavation, a row of ftrong palifades of middle fized 

 trees is planted, flrengthened with crofs bars, which are tied to them about 

 the diftance of fourteen inches from each other ; and thefe are fupported o.i the 

 out fide by flrong pofts like buttreffes, having one end funk in the earth and 

 the other premng againil the crofs bars to which they are fafjtened. When 



