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phants made no attempt to attack or dislodge the mahouts 

 or the cooroowes, who rode on the tame ones. They 

 moved in the very midst of the herd, any individual in 

 which could in a moment have pulled the riders from 

 their seats ; but no effort was made to molest them. 1 



As one after another their leaders were entrapped and 

 forced away from them, the remainder of the group 



1 "In a corral, to be on a tame Adigar's head was on a level with 



elephant, seems to insure perfect the "back of the wild animals : I 



immunity from the attacks of the felt very nervous, but he rode right 



wild ones. I once saw the old in among them, and received not 



chief Mollegodde ride in amongst the slightest molestation." — Letter 



a herd of wild elephants, on a from Major Skinner. 

 small elephant ; so small that the 



