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that are run acrofs the Roomee to prevent his kicking them, and with great 

 caution tie his hind-legs together, by paffing a cord alt rnately from the one 

 to the other like the figure 8, and then fattening thefe turns as above def- 

 cribed. After this, the Pharah, Dools, &c. are put on in fucceffioh in the 

 fame manner as on the Goondah, only that here the people are in greater fe- 

 curity. While thefe ropes are making fad, the other hunters are careful not 

 to go too near, but keep on the outfide of ths palifide, anl divert his atten- 

 tion, as much as they can, from thofe employed in fattening them, by fup- 

 plying him with grafs and fometimes with plantain leaves and fugar canes, 

 of which he is remarkably fond, by prefenting a flick, giving him hopes 

 of catching it, or by gently ftriking or tickling his probofcis. He frequent- 

 ly however feizes the ropes with his trunk, and endeavours to break them, 

 particularly thofe with which his feet are tied, and fometimes tries to bite 

 them through with his grinders (as he has no incifrrs or front teeth) but the 

 hunters then goad him with fharpened bamboos or light fpears, fo as to make 

 him quit his hold. Thofe, who are employed in putting the ropes around 

 his body and over his head, fland above him on a fmall kind of platform, 

 confirming of a few bars run acrofs through the openings of the palifades, and, 

 as an elephant cannot fee any thing that is above and rather behind his head, 

 they are very little incommoded by him, although he appears to fmell them 

 and endeavours to catch them with his trunk. When the whole apparatus 

 is properly fecured, the ends of the two cables (Dools) which were fattened 

 round his neck, are brought forward to the end of the Roomee, where two 

 female elephants are waiting ; and to them thefe cables are made fail. 

 When every thing is ready, the door at the end of the outlet is opened, the 

 crofs bars are removed, and the paffage left clear. The ropes, that tied his 

 legs to the palifades, are loofened, and, if he does not advance readily, they 

 o-oad him with long poles fharpened at the ends or pointed with iron, and; 



