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but a small stream of water running through 
them, though their beds are mostly of con- 
siderable breadth, very heavy for draught, and 
abounding in quicksands. It happened that 
an artilleryman, who was seated on the limber 
of one of the guns, by some accident fell off, 
lu such a situation that in a second or two the 
bind wheel must have gone over him. The 
olephant, which was stationed behind the gun, 
perceiving the predicament in which the man 
'Vas, instantly, without any warning from its 
beeper, lifted up the wheel with its trunk, and 
bept it suspended till the carriage had passed 
clear over him. 
“ The attachment or dislike of elephants to 
^beir keepers, according to the treatment they 
deceive, is too well known to need illustration. 
^ have myself seen the wife of a mahout (for 
^be followers often take their families with 
them to camp) give a baby in charge to the 
elephant, while she went on some business. 
