CHAPTER Vli. 
ELEPHANTS. 
THE INDIAN ELEPHANT — IN CAiTIVITV — THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND SAGAClTV 
—THEIR SUNDAY'S PUDDINGS — CONSTITUTION CHANGES BY DOMESTICA- 
TION — ELEPHANTS IN THEtR WILD STATE— THEIR POWER OF SCENT- 
WONDERFUL EXAMPLES OF ENGlNEERmO -THEIR S12E— CAUTION WHEN 
STALKING THEM — MV FtRST TUSKER— THE TUSKER WITHOUT A TAIL— 
AN AMUSING INCIDENT — ELEPHANT AND iJISON— COMING ON A HERD AND 
THE RESULT— CAPTURE OF A YOUNGSTER— THE TABLES TURNED— HEELS 
OVER HEAD— A STRANGE SHOT— LAST TRIP AFTER ELEPHANTS— THE GREAT 
TUSKER OK HASSANOOR -HIS DEATH — MY LAST ELEPHANT— BROOKE STOPS 
THE CHARGE. 
T one time during my service I had a good deal to 
do with the Indian elephant, both wild and in 
captivity. I was in charge of one of the large 
teak forests in Southern India — the Annaniuilies — where the 
wild elephant roamed at will. 1 had a number of tame 
elephants employed to drag timber to the stacks. In those 
days before iron had taken the place of wood, a great deal 
of teak wood was used in ship building, and this I had to 
supply to the Bombay Dock Yard. The teak wood is cut into 
large beams or planks as they are called in the forest, averag- 
ing about twenty-six feet in length, and from twelve to four- 
teen inches square throughout — not a very heavy load for an 
elephant to drag. A hole is cut at. one end of the beam and 
a thick drag rope is tied to it ; this the elephant takes in his 
moulli, dragging the beam alongside ; occasionally a fallen 
