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halts, fas it were by an Inftin&J which when the reft perceive, 
they immediately return with Fury upon the Hunter. Tavernier Loco citato, 
tells us, ‘That being once deceiv’d, and having efcap’d the Snare, 
* they are very diftruftfnl ever after } and when they get to 
‘ the Wood again, they break off a great Bough from one of 
‘ the Trees with their Trunk, with which they examine every 
« Step they go, before they fet down their Feet, to try if there be 
* any hole in their way. When they go in Troops, if one of them 
perceives an Herb on which any Man has trampl’d, he pulls it up, 
and delivers it to the next, who fmells it and gives it to a third, 
and foon till it come to the lalt, who makes a great Moife, upon 
which all go to flight, and retire to Hills, Mountains, Shady, and 
other lefs frequented Places, where when there is no more Grals, 
fome dig up Roots, others go and pull tender Buds, Herbs and 
Leaves of Trees ; and the firlt that finds any thing, returns and 
convenes the reft of the Flock, that he may communicate to them 
what he has purchafed. When they are in a Battel, fuch as are 
wearied or wounded, return to the Multitude, and fuch as have 
been lefs expos’d, advance of their own accord. When they are 
to pafs over a Ditch, one or more go down (according to the 
breadth of it ) and (land acrofs it, where making as it were the 
Column of a Bridge, all the reft ftepping upon their Backs, pafs 
over. When all have paft, they bring him or them out after this 
manner : At the fide of the Ditch one of them ftands, and ftretches 
out his Foot, which he that is in the Ditch takes hold of, by 
twifting his Probojci* round it ; then the reft make hafte and pro- 
vide Branches of Trees, which they throw in, that he may the 
more eafily ftep up upon them. 
Their Love, Fidelity and Gratitude is wonderful : c s£lianus tells Their Love 9 , 
US, when Form King of India was fubdu’d by Alexander the Great, Fidelity and' 
he was wounded with feveral Darts, as was the Elephant he rode Gratitude . 
upon, who was careful to pull them out of his Mailer’s Body with 
his Probofcu \ and when he perceived his Mailer faintilh by the 
lots of Blood, he gradually Iean’d himfelf down, till he fell flat 
upon the Ground, that his Mailer might receive no damage by 
lighting off". There is alfo a Story related by Athenans, of the 
Gratitude of an Elephant toward a Woman, who had done him bob. 13, 
fome piece of Service: She laid her Child by him, when it was 
only Thirty Days Old, but afterward the Woman being Dead, 
he fell fo in Love with the Child, that he could not endure it to 
be abfent from him, being rnoft uneafy when he did not fee ifc^ 
there* 
