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therefore when at any time the Nurfe had fatbfy’d the Child, /he 
laid it in a Cradle between his Feet •, which if Ihe had not done, 
he would not eat any * but when /he did it, he would eat plea- 
santly by the Child the whole Day. When the Child ilept, he 
chas’d away the Flees with the ProbofcU •, and when it cry'd, he 
would tofs or rock the Cradle, and thereby let the Child afleep 
again. Several Inftances of this Nature might be given from Au- 
thors, but thefe may Suffice. 
Wrath and But as their Love and Gratitude is great, fo likewife are they 
Revenue. fubjeft to Wrath and Revenge. Michael ClycM tells, that when 
Annal. Par. an Elephant at a time was brought into a Theater, he faw he 
came along a Keeper of Wild Beafts fitting in the Market Place, 
whom in Paffion he Suddenly kill d j and that the occafi n of this 
Revenge was, becaufe the Said Keeper about Ten Years before 
had ftricken him with a Sword in that fame Place. And Acofta 
writes, that a Soldier in the Town of Cocluna had thrown the 
Kernel of a Nut at an Elephant , which the Elephant took op, and 
carefully hid. Some Days after, the Elephant feeing the Soldier 
palling by, threw it into his Face, made a g eat Noile, and wear 
away leaping and dancing. In that fame Town another Soldier 
meeting an Elephant with his Keeper, wonld not give way to 
them, whereupon the Keeper complain’d to the Elephant of the 
Affront, who forae Days after /landing on the River ejlfangata, 
which runs through the Town, and Seeing the Soldier /landing 
idle, run haftily toward him, lifted him up on the Probojcu , and 
plung’d him feveral times in the River ; after which he drew him 
out (having thus aveng’d himfelf} and left him where he found 
him. 
, The manner of Taking them is ; fir/l, they dig deep Ditches, and 
!' e Mehtod C over them with Branches of Trees, &c. which, tho’ the Elc- 
phants may Sometimes perceive, as i9 Said, yet they are frequent- 
ly en/nar*d therein : When any fall in, the reft: are ready to 
throw in Branches of Trees, and Such other Materials as they cam 
get, to fee, if by any means, they can rid their Companion. 
Another Method us d by the King of Tegu is, he builds Prifons 
for them of Wooden Pillars, at fuch a diltance as to Suffer a Man 
to pafs, but not'an Elephant ; then he caufes to be let go into the 
Woods fome tame Females, whofe Pudenda are anointed With a 
certain Oyl, for enticing the Male ; and taking care that they do 
not copulate, they drive all together toward the Prifon, whence 
they convey the Females into Stables, which cancontainno more 
