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is infhntly flrnt by people, who are (rationed on a fmall fcaffold immediately 

 above it, and ftrongly barricaded, fires are, lighted and the fame .difcordant 

 din made and continued, till the herd has pafled through an other, gateway 

 into the laft enclofure or Rajecote, the gate of which is fecured in the fame 

 manner as the former was. The elephants, now being completely furround* 

 ed on all fides, and perceiving no outlet through which they can efcape, 

 appear deiperate, and in their fury advance frequently to the ditch in order 

 to break down the palifade, inflating their trunks, fcreaming. louder and fhVifc 

 ler than any trumpet, fometimes grumbling like the hollewrnurmur of dif- 

 .fant thunder, but, wherever they make an attack, they are oppofed by light-; 

 ed fires, and- by the noife and triumphant fhouts of the hunters. .'As they 

 muft remain fometime in this enclofure,, car^ is always tak n to have part 

 of the ditch filled with water, which is fupplied by a.fmall ifream, eitlier 

 natural. or conducted through an artificial channel from fomemeighbGuring 

 refervoir. The elephants have recourfe to this water to quench- their thirff, 

 and cool themfelves after their fatigues, by fucking the .water into their 

 trunks, and then fquirting it over every part of their bodies. While they 

 remain in this enclofure, they. continue fulky and feem to meditate their ef- 

 cape, but the hunters bujld huts and form an encampment, as it were, around 

 them clofe to the palifade .•_ watchmen are placed, and every precaution ufed 

 to prevent their breaking through. This they would foon effect., if left to 

 themfelves, notwithstanding the palifade is made of very ftrong flakes funk 

 into the earth on the outfide of the ditch,, and ftrengthened by crcfs bars and 

 buttreffes.as already mentioned. 



When the herd-has continued a few days in the Keddah, the door of the 

 Romee is opened, into which fome one of the elephants is enticed to en- 

 r |er, by having f^od. thrown firft before 5 and then gradually further on int© 



