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force him along. When dragged to the place at which 
he was to be tied up, he continued the contest with 
desperation, and to prevent the second noose being placed 
on his foot, he sat down on his haunches, almost in the 
attitude of the "Florentine Boar," keeping his hind-feet 
beneath him, and defending his fore-feet with his trunk, 
with which he flung back the rope as often as it was 
attempted to attach it. 
When overpowered and made fast, his grief was most 
affecting ; his violence sunk to utter prostration, and he 
lay on the ground, uttering choking cries, with tears 
trickling down his cheeks. 
The final operation was that of slackening the ropes, 
and marching each captive down to the river between 
two tame ones. This was effected very simply. A 
decoy, with a strong collar round its neck, stood on 
either side of the wild one, on which a similar collar 
was formed, by successive coils of coco-nut rope ; and 
