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great delight in Cucumbers and Melons, and a particnlar Inftin& 
in avoiding whatever Herbs may be hurtful to them. Tis alio 
obfervable, they will not go near any Grafs that has been tramp- 
led on by Men, for fear of Snares. When they are tam’d, they 
eat Hay, Oats, Barley, or fuch other Food as Oxen and Horfes. 
It drinks a great quantity of Water, which it fucks up by the 
Trunk, anJ whenever that’s full, it emptieth it in the Mouth. It 
naturally affe&s muddy Water rather t an clear: When Tame, 
it drinks clear Warer well enough. When they are to go to 
Battel, they give them Spirituous Liquors, fuch a, Wine, ere. in 
order to make them drunk and furious, as appears from the Hi- 
ftory in the third Book of Maccabees , Chap. 6. 
r It has a very acute fenfe of Smelling, by which it readily finds 
^cutenejs o] out j ts pood, ’Twas pleafant, that when they came to fee the 
mc ln g'> Creature, with Apples in tbeir Pockets, it pull’d them out to the 
aflonilhment of thofe who had them. I’m inform’d .one of the 
greatefl Mifchiefs it got, was, when in the North of the King- 
dom, being in an Hou e, next to which was another with a great 
deal of Corn in it, and the poor Beaft being hungry, and fmelling 
the Corn, beat up and preft into a very narrow Door, where 
its Sides were very much crulh’d, and they had much ado to get 
it out : And when at Perth, it beat up a Stable next to the Houfe 
where it was, and molt induftrioufly fingl’d out the clean Str w 
from among the Dung that lay among the Horfes Feet. 
Several Na- 1 come next t0 gi ye Y ou f° me Inftances of its Natural Endow- 
ral Fandions ments, the manner of taking it, and its wonderful Docility when 
of the Ek- Tame. Pliny fays, that maximum eft Animal, proximumqi humanis 
phanr. Sen fib us \ as appears in their Care of their Young, for they ra- 
ther chute to lofe their own Life, than that they fhould lofe theirs. 
They always go in Flocks, and the greatefl: go foremoft, and 
when they are to pals a River, they life the young ones acrols 
upon their two Tusks, andtwift the ProbofcU round about their 
middle ^ and make fuch as are bigger go before them, the great- 
eft coming laftj for did the greatefl pafs firft, the River might 
chance to be fo deep, that neither the lelfer ones could pafs, nor 
the bigger fo readily aflift them. When they pafs by any of their 
Dead, they cover the Cadaver with Branches of Trees, Grafs, or 
what elfe they can get. When Sny is wounded, the reft take 
care of him, bring him Meat, relieve him from Danger, and run 
together to fave him from the Hunter. When a Snare i> laid for 
them, they foon perceive it ; if it be a Ditch, he that^s neareft 
halts. 
