174 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



be likely to prove refractory, they begin to difcipline him 

 with their trunks, till he is reduced to obedience, and 

 fuffers himfelf to be led to a tree, where he is bound by 

 the leg with ftout thongs, made of untanned elk or buck 

 Ikin. The tame Elephants are then led back to the in- 

 clofure ; and the others are made to fubmit in the fame 

 manner. They are all fufrered to remain fail to the trees 

 for feveral days. Attendants are placed by the fide of 

 each animal, who fupply him with food by little and lit- 

 tle, till he is brought by degrees to be fenfible of kind- 

 nefs and carefles, and allows himfelf to be led to the (ta- 

 ble. In the fpace of fourteen (Jays, his abfolute fubmif- 

 fion is completed. During that time, he is fed daily 

 with cocoa-nut leaves, and led once a day to the water 

 by the tame ones. Fie becomes accuftomed to the voice 

 of his keeper, and at laft quietly refigns his prodigious 

 powers to the dominion and fervice of man. 



The time of geftation of the Elephant is hitherto but 

 imperfectly known : Ariftotle fays, it goes two years 

 with young ; which is the more likely, as the feafon of 

 defire in the male returns but once in three years. The 

 female produces one young at a time. The young Ele- 

 phants are faid to fuck with their trunk, the teats of the 

 female being fituated between its fore legs. 



The Elephant is thirty years in arriving at its full 

 growth ; and is faid to live, though in a ftate of capti- 

 vity, to the age of an hundred and twenty or an hundred 

 and thirty years : In a ftate of unreftrained freedom, it 

 is fuppofed to live much longer. 



The Elephant will drink wine, and is fond of fpirituous 

 liquors. By mewing him a veflel filled with arrack, he ... 

 is induced to exert the greater!: efforts, and perform the 

 moft painful talks, in hopes of receiving it as the reward 



