122 THE ELEPHANT OF INDIA. 
has been lately exhibited in England, was that 
which it was necessary to destroy in Exeter Change, 
during one of his periodical paroxysms of fury 
He was, at first, a fine animal, remarkable for 
docility; andhad previously belonged to Mr Harris 
of Covent Garden theatre, who paid nine hundred 
guineas for the animal, and introduced him upon 
the stage in the procession incidental to a grand 
pantomime, called Harlequin Padmanaba.* We 
were fortunate in seeing this animal play his 
part, apparently with delight, and with great 
gentleness and docility, moving around the 
crowded stage, as if conscious of his ponderous 
bulk, and the feeble resistance that could be 
made to any opposition which he might offer. 
His death afterwards was painful, though abso- 
lutely necessary; nearly two hundred balls must 
have pierced him ; and when we consider the 
naked African going out alone to the hunt, and 
sometimes bringing down this huge animal with 
a single ball, we cannot help thinking that a little 
previous coolness and deliberation would have 
saved both much pain and danger. 
So many anecdotes of this animal are con- 
tinually before the public, that we do not propose 
* See a lengthened account of the death of this animal 
in Oriffitli’s Cuvier, p. 348, vol. iii. 
