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to the attack, flourished his trunk in the air, 
^nd struck the unfortunate officer senseless to 
the ground. When first seen by his comrades, 
his huge antagonist was standing over him, 
chafing and screaming with rage, pounding 
the earth with his feet, and ploughing it with 
his tusks. The lieutenant was stretched mo- 
tionless on his back between the legs of the 
Animal, which, had he been so disposed, might 
have crushed him to death in a moment by 
dotting his leg on his body. He was covered 
"'ith blood and dirt, and his eyes appeared to 
he starting from their sockets. It afterwards 
appeared that, previously to his last attack 
Mr. Arlett, the elephant had filled his 
tfunk with mud, which, having turned him on 
his back and forced open his mouth, he blew 
hown his throat, injecting a considerable 
'fiiantity into the stomach, Avhich almost pro- 
duced suffocation, and occasioned the inflated 
appearance of his face ; and, for three days 
