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force him along. When dragged to the place at which 

 he was to be tied up, he continued the contest with 

 desperation, and to prevent the second noose being placed 

 on his foot, he sat down on his haunches, almost in the 

 attitude of the " Florentine Boar," keeping his hind-feet 

 beneath him, and defending his fore-feet with his trunk, 

 with which he flung back the rope as often as it was 

 attempted to attach it. 



When overpowered and made fast, his grief was most 

 affecting ; his violence sunk to utter prostration, and he 



lay on the ground, uttering choking cries, with tears 

 trickling down his cheeks. 



The final operation was that of slackening the ropes, 

 and marching each captive down to the river between 

 two tame ones. This was effected very simply. A 

 decoy, with a strong collar round its neck, stood on 

 either side of the wild one, on which a similar collar 

 was formed, by successive coils of coco-nut rope ; and 



