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between the second and last division (Nos. 3 and 4). The 

 enclosure round the coraal, or which constitutes the coraal 

 proper, is made of heavy trees and posts tolerably close to 

 each other, being 16 ft. to 18 ft. high and 3 to 4 ft. thick. 

 These posts are driven about three-quarters of a fathom into 

 the ground, and have generally four, five, or six cross-beanis 

 about 2 ft. above each other strongly bound with jungle 

 creepers, and outside this coraal there is at a distance of 

 each rood a support which lies diagonally across the enclosure 

 to resist the rush of the elephants. 



When the season arrives to organize the hunt, people 

 {specially used for this purpose called Waggelmrreas or spies) 

 are sent to the jungles to find out where most of the elephants 

 are to be found, which is done with necessary silence, and 

 when they have made their report, preparations are begun 

 for the hunt. But before I proceed to describe such hunt , 

 I most here state shortly that the elephants are generally 

 found in herds of from five, ten, to fifteen and twelve or 

 more in the jungles, and it is seldom that they are found one 

 or two alone, unless they are ill-tempered beasts known by 

 the name of ronkedoors or mischief-makers (lit snorters), 21 

 who graze alone and separate from the herd. 



If a herd of elephants is separated from the rest in 

 the jungle, one should set to work in order to enclose them 

 all as it were in a pentagon, as appears clearly from the 

 hereto annexed plan. The elephants being thus surrounded, 

 all the herds are now driven to the middle of the appointed 

 place, where they eventually meet, when the part of the 

 place marked A and B is broken up and is brought to the 

 two furthest ends of the wings C D, to make the elephants 

 enter the coraal or snare. 



When the elephants are thus driven within the wings 

 they should be pursued with great uproar and beating of 

 tamblyntyes, or native drums, with the discharge of guns, 

 with weapons, the burning of torches, and carrying of burn- 

 ing pots on the head, and then from one end of the wing to 

 the other, viz., along the line F F, great trees and jungle are 



