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MAMMALIA. 



[Chap. II. 



Kogers 1 , had run away from his groom, and was found 

 some considerable time afterwards grazing quietly with 

 a herd of elephants. In De Bky's splendid collection 

 of travels, however, there is included 66 The voyage of a 

 Certain Englishman to Gambay ; " 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. 2 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 Rogers 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. Ssepe 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 

 proboscide, ad se protractos, denti- 

 bus porro comminuit ac protrivit." 

 Angli Cujusdam in Cambayam 



Navigatio. DeBry, Coll., $c, vol. 

 iii. ch. 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. 



