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THE ELEPHANT. 
plenty of rack. Incited by this prospect of 
reward, the animal again^ fell to work, and 
raised himself considerably higher, until, by 
partial removal of the masonry round the top 
of the well, he was enabled to step out. Tb^ 
whole affair occupied about fourteen hours. 
In some parts of India where the elephant® 
are of small size, they are often caught by th^ 
natives with a slip-knot, used somewhat in tb® 
manner of the South American lasso, tb^ 
hunter being seated on a trained elephanb 
round w’hose body the cord is fastened. Tbi® 
is thrown over the neck of the wild animal • 
another hunter comes up, and repeats the pi'^’' 
cess ; and thus the creature is held by the 
tame elephants to which the ropes are attached 
till his strength is exhausted. 
It is remarkable that, in every mode of cap' 
timing the wild elephant, man avails himself ^ 
the docility of individuals of the same specie®’ 
whom his ingenuity has subdued. From circuit' 
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