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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 



