THE ELEPHANT OF INDIA. Ill 
India, and the East, are the countries where 
the Elephant is most subjected to the dominion of 
man ; and where it becomes almost a necessary 
animal in the business of the inhabitants, of course, 
affording a profitable employment to the dealers 
in those animals, or, if one may be allowed the 
term, to the elephant jockies. Various modes 
have been devised to capture them ; and they do 
not appear to display the same active intelligence 
which they do on many occasions in a tame state, 
or to be so timorous and wary as African travellers 
describe the animal of that country. One of the 
most commonly employed means of capture, is 
driving them into a keddah, or enclosure, with a 
wide or extensive opening, which is gradually 
narrowed, and made on the same principle with 
the Buffalo pounds, which we have noticed in a 
former volume. The strength, however, of the 
last enclosure, is very different. There is a broad 
ditch, too wide for an Elephant to stride over, 
of a considerable depth, and around, on the out- 
side, is a paling of large timbers, well bound with 
strong battens, and supported by props at suitable 
distances, forming an immense bulwark. When 
a large herd of Elephants is discovered, or when 
two or more small herds are found so contiguous, 
as to be easily brought together, the people of 
the neighbouring country, who in general receive 
regular wages for their aid. are collected to sur- 
round them ; and often assemble to the number of 
