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Eogers 1 , had run away from his groom, and was found 
some considerable time afterwards grazing quietly with 
a herd of elephants. In De Bet's splendid collection 
of travels, however, there is included " The voyage of a 
Certain Englishman to Cambay ; " in which the author 
asserts that at Agra, in the year 1607, he was present at 
a spectacle given by the Viceregent of the great Mogul, 
in the course of which he saw an elephant destroy two 
horses, by seizing them in its trunk, and crushing them 
under foot.? But the display was avowedly an artificial 
one, and the creature must have been cruelly tutored for 
the occasion. 
Pigs are constantly to be seen feeding about the 
stables of the tame elephants, which manifest no re- 
pugnance to them. As to the smaller animals, the 
elephant undoubtedly evinces uneasiness at the presence 
of a dog, but this is referable to the same cause as its 
impatience of a horse, namely, that neither is habitually 
seen by it in the forest ; but it would be idle to suppose 
that this feeling could amount to hostility against a 
creature incapable of inflicting on it the slightest injury. 3 
The truth I apprehend to be that, when they meet, the 
impudence and impertinences of the dog are offensive to 
1 Major Eogers was many years 
the chief civil officer of Government 
in the district of Oovah, where he 
was killed by lightning, 1845. 
2 " Quidam etiam cum equis sil- 
vestribus pugnant. Saepe unus ele- 
phas cum sex equis committitur; 
atque ipse adeo interfui cum unus 
elephas duos equos cum primo 
impetu protinus prosternerit ; — 
injecta enim jugulis ipsorum longa 
proboseide, ad se protractos, denti- 
bus porro comminuit ac protrivit." 
Angli Cujusdam in Cambay am 
Navigatio. De Bey, Coll., $c, vol. 
iii. en. xvi. p. 31. 
3 To account for the impatience 
manifested by the elephant at the 
presence of a dog, it has been sug- 
gested that he is alarmed lest the 
latter should attack his feet, a por- 
tion of his body of which the ele- 
phant is peculiarly careful. A 
tame elephant has been observed 
to regard with indifference a spear 
directed towards his head, but to 
shrink timidly from the same wea- 
pon when pointed at his foot. 
