Chap. VI.] 



THE ELEPHANT. 



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then swaying it backwards and forwards, by pushing it 

 with their foreheads, they watched the opportunity when 

 it was in full swing to raise their fore-feet against the 

 stem, and bear it down to the ground. Then tearing off 

 the festoons of climbing plants, and trampling down the 

 smaller branches and brushwood, they pitched them with 

 their tusks, piling them into heaps along the side of the 

 fence. 



Amongst the last that was secured was the solitary 

 individual belonging to the fugitive herd. When they 

 attempted to drag him backwards from the tree near 



which he was noosed, he laid hold of it with his trunk 

 and lay down on his side immoveable. The temple 

 tusker and another were ordered up to assist, and it re- 

 quired the combined efforts of the three elephants to 



