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found himself Under the necessity of repeating his 
admonition to the spectators ; but no sooner was 
this uttered, than the female laid hold of his 
musket, twirled it round with her trunk, trod it 
under her feet, and did not restore it till she had 
twisted it nearly into the form of a screw® 
M. Navarette says, that at Macassar, an ele« 
phant-driver had a cocoa-nut given him, which, 
out of wantonness, he struck twice against the ele- 
phant's forehead to break. The day following 
the animal saw some cocoa-nuts exposed in the 
street for sale ; and taking one of them up with 
its trunk, beat it about the driver’s head, till the 
man was completely dead. 
That elephants are susceptible of the warmest 
attachment to each other, the following account, 
extracted from a late French journal, will suffici- 
ently prove. Two Ceylonese elephants, a male 
and a female, each about two years and a half old, 
were in 1786 brought into Holland, a present to 
the stadtholder from the Dutch East India Com- 
pany. They had been separated, in order to be 
conveyed from the Hague to Paris ; where, in 
the Museum of Natural History, a spacious hail* 
was prepared for their reception. This was 
divided into tw o apartments, which had a commu- 
nication by means of a large door, resembling a 
portcullis. The inclosure round these apartments 
consisted of very strong wooden rails. The morn- 
ing after their arrival, they were conveyed to this 
habitation. The male was first brought. He 
entered the apartment with suspicion, reconnoitred 
the place^ and then examined each bar separately 
with his trunk, and tried their solidity by shaking 
them. He attempted to turn the large screws on 
the outside which held them together, but was 
not able. When he arrived at the portcullis which^ 
Separated the apartments, he observed that it waif 
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