July i, 1S91.] 
THP TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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about K250, viz., actual cost of capturing EoO ; 
mahout for 5 uIonthB, while under training, 
EfiO ; oavady B3.5 ; fodder and rations, K7"> ; super- 
vision and sundries E30. The value ef the ele- 
phants at present possessed by the Department 
IS estimated at RIO, 500. After capture and 
removal from the pit unnecessary severity is 
avoided, and the animals are trained, being kindly 
treated and receiving as rewards jaggery, sugar-oano 
or other delicacies. In about five months the training 
is complete and the elephants put to work with 
others in dragging timber etc. As there is a certain 
amount of personal risk incurred in the work of 
capture, rewards not exceeding KlOO are proposed to 
bo granted to the subordinates employed for each 
elephant captured and properly trained and which is 
in good condition at the end of six months. 
In this oonucotion it will not be uninteresting 
to summarise what a correspondent, who signs 
himself " Kurumber,” writes to the Tinian. lie 
prefaces his remarks by referring to the report 
that Admiral Proraanllo, while at Trinoomalie, 
went on a shooting expedition to Vellar plain, 15 
miles from Mutur and there bagged two elephants, 
“ a dame and her baby.” Can, ho asks, this 
horrible tale bo true ? If it be so. all ho can 
say is that ■■ some people have onrions ideas of 
what constitutes sport. The wanton butchery of 
harmless animals that are perfectly U'eless to 
the man who shoots them, and very often to 
every one else, is simple oruelty, and all true 
sportsmen, who aro humane and do not need- 
lessly iiifliet pain on dumb boasts, can only 
shudder at such doings.” “ Kurumber ” should not 
have commented on the Admirul’s sport without 
having made himself acquainted with all the facts 
of the case. Admiral Fremautle, we may mention, 
had shot the female when its baby, which had 
at first bolted, turned rcuid and charged the 
Admiral and his party, and in self-defence the 
former ehot the innocent suokling, Th t is all. 
*■ Kurumber then refers to the reprehensible 
conduct of the Ceylon Government in allowing 
every big-wig and globe trotter who visits Ceylon 
to murder the elephants without restriction. This 
is not, we believe, a fact, for the Government is 
just as anxious to preserve these mammoths of 
the forest as " Kurumber." The Madras Govern- 
ment then conies in for a share of this angry 
correspiindeal’s attack. We will quote what be 
says, merely remarking that it the Mysore Go 
vernment wishes to exterminate the elephants in the 
wholesale nianmr attributed to it by “Kurumber” 
it has every right to do 80 , as far as wo can see : — 
“ Here, in Southern India, the Madras Government 
looks placidly on whilst a feudatory State (Mysore) 
carries on the extermination in a more wholesale 
manner. For years the wild clephauls have been 
most carefully protected by Government, apparently 
in order that the Mysore Government should reap 
the entire profit by oatohing and selling the 
animals which the Madras Government has bred 
for thoim and this with the aisistance of a 
trained otacer lent by the Supreme Government I 
It IS just the same thing as if you possossed a 
large and well etoeked game preserve, and then 
assisted your neighbour, with the loan of your 
game-keeper lo shoot down in his small holding 
and preserved for his bene- 
fit I The folly of the Madias Oovornmont in looking 
on whilst lakhs of rupees worth of its elephants 
are being captured wholosalo by the Mysore people 
with the help of the Government of India, is 
beyond ordinary comprehension. Wlien the Mysore 
Government has caught all the elephants belonging 
to Madras perhaps the Supremo Government will 
wake up to the fact that they have no more 
elephants to preserve I Then I presume they wil 
purohase elephants and turn them loose to re' 
stock the forest 1 Our present Governor, Lord 
Wenlook, is however a very different man to his 
predecessors, and he has only to discover the 
terrible damage that is being done to counteract 
it as scon as possible.”— M. Mail. 
^ 
“HISTORY OF COFFEE;” MR. PETER 
BROIIIER'S TRANSLATION. 
Kandy, 18th May 1801. 
To the Editor of the ^'Tropical Agrictilturistd* 
Desk Sir. — I was glid to a c in the Tropical Agri- 
ci'/tiiri.d (see psges 874, Vol. X. and 5 and 121 the trana- 
l»tion of Ihe “ lli tory of Cuffee” from the 
Dutch of Vnh ntyn. This translation w.ai made, about 
3,1 years ago, by Mr. Peter Erohier (the father of the 
present assistant Au-Htor-General), who was then a 
retired pulilie servant .and had been chief clerk of 
the revenue branch of the Audit OfBo". Mr. Brohier, 
(who Was the son of the late Captain John Brohier 
Provincial .fudge of Puttslam)* was a good Dutob 
Biiholaraud an accoraplishe 1 musiemn. After his re- 
tirement from the Government rorvice, he spent much 
of his lime in translating Dutch works. The translation 
in question waa origiun ly a contribution to one of 
yonr cunt, mporaries. The planlero of the day aud 
others wore much pleased with the work, and a leading 
Kurripeaii gentleman wrote to the translator, that 
apart from the merits of the translation, he was quite 
delighted with the humorous sumioaries which headed 
eaeli chapter; aud that above all, he w.aa charmed 
with the little Tiirkisli pnem wh ch wis rendered so 
feliei'ously into English. This c.intrihiitioii afterwards 
appea'edin a Pamphlet form, and at the snggestiou of 
Mr. Hew Stewart, the faietious editor of the ” Times ” 
a copy of it was forwarded to Mr. Alexander Brown, 
the Secrotity ot the Plaiilers’ A-aoention, whoso at- 
attentiou was cslleil to the fact that a preparation 
very nineh like *• Pale A le ” might he prepared from the 
coffee husk or shell. And the worthy Scotch Secretary, 
wh ist thanking t he learned translator for the copy sent 
to the Association, informed him, that he did not 
helieve the planters were just thjii prepared to try 
the expurimeut suggested, as the cotToe berry “pure 
and simple” was puyiug them hand over fist. 
—Yours faithfully, SIGMA. 
INDIAN ART APPLIED TO THE ILLUS- 
TRATION OF INDIAN EPICS. 
As aftentiuii lus recently bren drawn to the 
induslrie.s of Jeyporo in connection with the munifi- 
emit gift of i'L'O.OrO to the Imperial Institute by Hia 
ll'ghneas tho Maharaja, it may not be inappropriate 
to notice iliii really artistic work done by native 
artificers in that city. The Uamayaua shield sloao 
would be eullicient to prove tho marvellous skill of tlio 
workman who holds Ilia premier place iu Jeypore. 
Tho general idea was taken from the Alilton and Bum an 
shields ot IMorel-Ladouil. and tho story of tlie Ustns- 
Jiiua is toil! in a soriea of plsqnes, nearly all of 
which are faithful reproductions iu relief, in silver- 
plated brass of paintings by tho mo‘t celebrated artists 
who flourished iu Akbar’s time. Ganga Bakah Khati, 
is the workman who carried out the idea which Dr. 
Heiidley conceived, and visitors to Jeypiire, when tliey 
see tliii shield, can realise that the art of working in 
uiotala still survives iu India. The figures of man and 
aniiiisla are perfectly reproduced from the old paintings 
and nothing is wanting in Ihoss details which the 
native artist oulv too often neglects. Dr. Headley has 
now nrisingeJ for tho prodnetiou of two more largo 
shields. Quo of these will be a companion to the 
Ramayaua shield, the story of the Mahabaratt being 
» Cajitaiii Brohier, the Provincial Jud^ of Piirtnlani, 
wrvtH the '‘Iliatorical Account of Ceylon'' which 
appeared in the Ceylon Literary Eeyiator of last year 
