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cort of his perfidious friends to the place of his 
destination, where, treated with mingled kind- 
ness and severity, he soon becomes reconciled 
to his lot. It is remarkable that the goondah, 
oven in the most violent paroxysms of his rage, 
never seeks to be revenged on the treacherous 
koomkies who have led him into the snare. On 
the contrary, he appears happy in their com- 
pany, and in caressing them to console himself 
for the loss of his liberty. 
The method of hunting a troop of wild ele- 
phants in Hindostan, is thus described in a 
letter, dated Coimbatore, April 1819. 
About three thousand people being assem- 
bled at the place of rendezvous, on the skirts 
nf the jungle, and the haunts of the elephants 
being ascertained, a semircircular line of peo- 
ple, provided with fire-arms and tom-toms, 
and extending several miles, was then formed 
^ound them, each end of the line reaching to 
a chain of hills, the passes through which 
