ELEPHANT. 
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When the hunters have sufficiently secured the 
animals, with strong ropes tied round their limbs, 
they are dragged out and taken home to he tamed. 
Of their mode of performing this I shall give the 
account of Tavernier, from his Travels in India, 
who tells us that he was himself present at the tam- 
ing of two that had been taken not long before. 
4 4 After two hours travel, we came to a great vil- 
lage, where we saw the two elephants that had 
been lately taken. Each of these was placed be- 
tween two tame ones. Round the wild elephants 
stood six men, each with a half-pike in his hand, 
with a lighted torch fastened at the end of it, who 
talked to the animals, giving them meat, and 
calling to them in their own language f take it, 
take it / If the wild elephants refused to do as 
they were bid, the men made signs to the tame 
ones to beat them ; which they did thus : one of 
them banged the refractory elephant about the 
head with his trunk, and if he offered to make 
any resistance, the other thwacked him on the other 
side ; so that the poor animal, not knowing what 
to do, was at length constrained to become obe- 
dient 
It has been stated, that the sagacity of the ele- 
phant is so great, and his memory so retentive, that 
when once he has received an injury, or been in 
bondage and afterwards escaped, it is not possible, 
by-' any art, again to entrap him. The following 
instances, recorded in the Philosophical Transac- 
tions for i799, will prove, however, that this is not 
the fact : 
4 4 A female elephant was first taken in the year 
1765, by rajah Kislmn Mauniek, who, about 
six months after, gave her to Abdoor Rezah, a 
man of some rank and consequence in the district. 
In 1767, the rajah sent a force against this Abdoor 
Rezah, for some refractory conduct, who, in his 
