CHAPTER IV. 
mounting. restraint. fettering for grazing. securing for 
operations. bolting. crossing rivers. quicksands, 
destruction of elephants. 
Mounting. 
In order to mount an animal that is nervous of his keeper, which 
will sometimes happen if it be in dread of a wound being handled, 
or dressed, or other cause, a good plan is to throw a rope over the 
body making a running noose and haul it tight round the belly, 
whereby to climb up. 
Restraint. 
For this purpose fetters, chains, and ropes are employed. 
Fetters are of various patterns : those most commonly used 
consist of short lengths of chain. A fetter is carried for each foot, 
Fig. 14. — Chain hobbles for fore-legs. 
the fore-fetters are connected by a short chain like hand-cuffs, and 
those for the hind-legs are also joined in a similar manner (see 
Fig. 14). The fetters are fastened by means of a special link-hook. 
Some elephants can undo this fastening ; in such cases a peculiar 
spring lock of native pattern is applied to fasten the fetter. 
Many foresters employ these locks when they let their animals free 
in the jungle to prevent their being stolen. 
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