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A TREATISE ON ELEPHANTS. 
cooly to mount and dress the wounds. This elephant after a course 
of tonics made an excellent recovery [see Appendix B). 
The kya-pazat is used for the recapture of escaped elephants. 
Some animals after being free for a time, 
though permitting men they know to ap- 
proach them, will not allow them to mount, 
so this kind of kya-pazat is used {see Fig. 
20) ; the head is similar to an ordinary 
pitch-fork, but barbed like a fish-hook, it 
is wide enough to stick on to a limb ; a light 
chain or rope is attached to a ring on it. 
The head can be fixed on a long bamboo. 
The man sneaks about the jungle after his 
animal and when opportunity offers sticks 
the pitch-fork on a hind limb ; the handle 
soon comes out, but before long the rope 
or chain gets entangled in bushes, and the 
animal cannot get away. 
A more barbarous method employed 
by Karens and Shans is to load a gun 
with a piece of pointed cane, pyingado or 
thingan. If it does not lame the animal 
sufficiently to effect his capture it upsets 
his temper and rrakes him a nasty customer to meet. 
Most mahouts arm themselves with a light iron hook fixed into 
a cane or bamboo handle about 2 ft. in length 
(Fig. 21). It should only be employed in 
emergencies. Some drivers only use a pointed 
stick. 
From time to time endless other coercive 
appliances have been devised for purposes of 
restraint (Fig. 22) ; though"'" patience and 
Fig. 
—Kya-pazat (tiger's 
mouth). 
Fig. 22. — Iron chain collar with 
sharp points. 
Fig. 21.— Driving hook gentleness should be exercised in dealing with 
with iron head and ° • 
wooden shaft. any animal, it is still more necessary in these 
creatures, and everything should be tried 
before forcible measures are resorted to. 
