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flood 6 Men, every one having an half Pike in his Hand, and a 
lighted Torch faftned at the end of the Pike, and talking to the 
Bealls gave them Meat, and cry’d out in their Language, Take n. 
Eat it. The Food which they gave them was a little Bottle of 
Hay, fome pieces of brown Sugar, and Rice boil’d in Water, 
with fome few Corns of Pepper. If the Wild Elephants refus’d to 
do as they were bidden, the Men made Signs to the l ame Ele- 
phants to beat them, which they did, banging the refra&ory one 
with their Trunks on the Head and Forehead ; and if he offer to 
make any refinance, the others thwart him on the other fide ^ 
fo that the poor Bealt not knowing what to do, was conftrain’d 
to learn Obedience. ’Tis faid thefe Methods foon take with the 
younger fort, but for the old ones they put them into big Houfes, 
and treat them very hardily, by wounding them with Darts, and 
flarving them till they be half Dead * and then by gentle Methods 
and fair Promifes they tame them, tAiliamu fays, when all other 
Methods prove ineffectual with an old one, they have a certain 
kind of Mufical Inftruraent, wherein they play the r own Natural 
Tune, to which they become fo attentive, that they are foon 
taken with the fweetnefs of the Melody ; and laying afide their 
Wildnefs, begin to look to the Meat that’s offer’d them, and 
tho’ they Ihould take off the Fetters, forget their ancient rude- 
nefs, and fall to their Meat with Greedinefs and Appetite. ’Tis 
indeed very furprizing to think, they ihould u.nderltand either 
Flattery, Threatning or Mulick, when Tame, and if when Wild 
they do it, ’tis much more fo. However, that it is a molt docile 
Creature the Accounts of all agree, and Authors tell you wonder- 
ful Stories of them, fuch as their Dancing to a Pipe, and keeping 
Time, Leaping, Skipping, Gathering and Strowing Flowers, ex- 
ercifing Fuzee and Pike, like a Soldier, and calling of Colours, 
playing a great many antick Tricks in Theaters, and even 
Writing too, and undemanding Human Speech. When it is in 
Sorrow, it hangs the Probofcis low to the Ground, and ’tis by the 
fame it makes itsGladnefs appear. It is an Animal very defirous 
of vain Glory, and very Proud, when finely .dreft -and richly 
adorn’d. 
■ . T But leaving this, I come to the more particular Coniideration 
A brief lJe- the £ re ature j am now treat n g 0 g i fh a ll firlt take notice of 
^External its External Shape and Dimenfions, and then of its Jnternal Parts, 
Shape of the with their Structure. That it is Animal Faftiffimut#, I fhall readi- 
JElephant. ly acknowledge with Franuns \ but that it is deform’d, fince thofe 
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