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same time two ropes are attached to each support under the 

 cross-beam, and the neck thus secured that the coil goes 

 over the same under the cross-beam and round the supports, 

 after which the neck is tied in the same way with two 

 windings of rope, the end thereof being between the two 

 supports drawn up and made secure to a beam. The two 

 fore feet have each to be tied fast with a rope to the afore- 

 said supports, and there is yet another rope so close to this 

 that it is about a hand's breadth from the others. The two 

 hind feet are also first tied together in the same manner 

 with two ropes, and to each of them are attached two other 

 ropes, the ends of which are tied to two r opes standing on 

 each side. 



I An elephant thus stalled is kept awake night and day, and 

 always fed on grass and other food, and also untied once a 

 day and brought to the water with the hunting elephants,, 

 not only to be refreshed and watered, but also to be washed 

 and cleansed, they being taught in the meantime, on being 

 shown the hook, to lie on the ground on their paunch, and 

 to raise their feet, and carry a man on their back. The cuts 

 caused to the neck and feet by the ropes are treated to 

 lotions and liniments as stated before. But if they have 

 any internal disease, remedies are prepared against this 

 in the hollowed piece of an arecanut tree and thus 

 administered, and in other ways according to circumstances. 

 When an elephant has become tolerably tame and docile, he 

 is stalled as follows : Having loosened all the aforesaid 

 ropes and removed the cross-beam and the two supports, the 

 fore right foot and hind left foot, or vice versa, are each tied 

 with two or three ropes to a post 3 or 4 ft. distant, so that 

 the beast stands in the middle of the stall without moving 

 to the right or left. 



Having often spoken before of the hunting elephants used 

 for bringing the newly-captured elephants out of the coraal 

 into the stall and daily to water, it remains to be informed 

 the inexperienced reader that these hunting elephants are 

 made up of all kinds of defective and unsaleable elephants, 



