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evinced increased emotion and excitement ; but what- 
ever may have been their sympathy for their lost com- 
panions, their alarm seemed to prevent them at first 
from following them to the trees to which they had 
been tied. In passing them afterwards they sometimes 
stopped, mutually entwined their trunks, lapped them 
round each other's limbs and neck, and exhibited the 
most touching distress at their detention, but made no 
attempt to disturb the cords that bound them. 
The variety of disposition in the herd as evidenced 
by difference of demeanour was very remarkable: 
some submitted with comparatively little resistance; 
whilst others in their fury dashed themselves on the 
ground with a force sufficient to destroy any weaker 
