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gj^?'^ 3 usted horse into a gallop, ,ai,d saw the animal, 
f ’ snort, laise his powerful trunk above 
l''''Pan' Of* hiniidf, but on his 
j'ti 8i) that the stroke foil ; and in an instant he saw 
from his horse, and thrown up into the air. 
J 'ti hig gaiises, he continued his flight, and only in 
recovered himself by finding Prince's horse 
o his side without a rider: then looking back, 
%t unfortunate friend on the ground, and the ele- 
N upon him with the utmost fury. He was 
j not without the greatest astonishment, 
i''' 3 s Sacious animal had distinguished which of the two 
Wounded him, and wreaked his whole ven- 
t 'be alone. Muller, on this, went in search 
i' P 3 "'y> tl'®y might collect the mangled 
t?' Put t ^OMpuHion, and bury them 5 but they were 
iiShbQ„ , flight by the elephant rushing again from a 
thicket, to vent his wrath once more upon 
V j already so dreadfully mangled. While he was 
k “ ii. "'feady ; 
S4 ^ doing this. 
, -uiug uns, however, he was attacked by the dls- 
and sacrificed to the manes of his unfortunate 
*Uos°*'*'fl''ances for taking elephants are various ; but 
'r^'h ^'i*'ious are those employed by the natives of 
,.*v here the finest race of tliese animals is found. 
C li»K, .’■'dies surround the woods in bands, and drive 
gu torches, amid the clamour of trumpets, the 
fire-arms, and noises of every description, 
vPped 'wliich inlianit them, till they are at length 
hr ® particulu' .spot surrounded with palisades, 
il„ . dll escape At other times a kind of decoy 
is sotu out ill onler to induce some of 
a pursue her, wdio are by ll'.at means secured. 
^ d'ephant is taken, it si .11 1 mains to reduce it 
ddd to lame it, in order to its being made 
V ‘^fl^dcied by throwing rojies round the legs 
iti "re well secured ; and two tame elephatits, 
V 4 fio/, |ddted, are placed on each side. The captive 
^ fl'niself gradually so fliligued by his ineffecinr'.l 
V^^'het much soothed by the caresses occasionally 
litpQ '""ks of the tame elephants, by tlie food fioin 
® ptesented to him, and the wata' with which he 
