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snake a terrible noise by shouting, beating .of tom- 
toms (a kind of drum), firing blank cartridges, 
&c. to urge them on to the next inclosure. 
The elephants, finding themselves entrapped, 
scream and make other noises ; and discovering* 
no opening except the entrance to the next inclo- 
sure, they at length, but not before they have 
many times traversed round their present situa- 
tion, following their leader, enter it. The gate is 
instantly shut upon them, fires are lighted, and 
the same discordant noises made as before, till 
they have passed through another gateway into 
the last inclcsure, where they are secured in a 
similar manner. Being now completely surrounded 
on all sides, and perceiving no outlet through 
which they can escape, they appear desperate, and 
in their fury advance frequently to the surround- 
ing ditch, in order to break down the palisade, in- 
flating their trunks, and screaming out aloud ^ 
but wherever they make an attack, they are op- 
posed by lighted fires, and by the noise' and tri- 
umphant shouts of the hunters. The ditch is 
then filled with water ; and after a while they have 
recourse to it, in order to quench their thirst and 
cool themselves, which they do by drawing the 
water into their trunks, and then squirting it over 
every part of their bodies. 
When the elepharffs have continued in the in- 
closure a few days, where they are regularly, 
though scantily, fed from a scaffold on the out- 
side, the door of the roomee (an outlet about sixty 
feet long and very narrow) is opened, and one of 
the elephants is enticed to enter, by having food 
thrown before it When the animal has ad- 
vanced far enough to allow it, the gate is shut and 
well secured on both sides. Finding his retreat now 
cut off, and the place so narrow that he cannot turn 
himself, he advances, and exerts his utmost efforts 
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