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lie allows the females to approach, and sometimes 
even advances to meet them.” 
When from these appearances the drivers judge 
that he will become their prize, they conduct two 
of the females, one on each side close to him, and 
make them move backwards, and press gently with 
their posteriors against his neck and shoulders ; the 
third female then comes up and places herself di- 
rectly across his tail : in this situation, so far from 
suspecting any design against his liberty, he begins 
to toy with the females and caress them with his 
trunk. While thus engaged the fourth female is 
brought near, with ropes and proper assistants, who 
immediately get under the belly of the third fe- 
male, and put a slight cord (the chilkah ) round his 
hind legs : should he move, it is easily broken ; in 
which case, if he takes no notice of this slight con- 
finement, nor appears suspicious of what is going 
forward, the hunters then proceed to tie his legs 
with a strong cord (called bunda), which is passed 
alternately by means of a forked stick and a kind 
of hook, from one leg to the other, forming a figure 
of 8 ; and as these ropes are short, for the con- 
venience of being more readily put round his legs, 
six or eight are generally employed, and they are 
made fast by another cord (the dagbearee), which is 
passed a few turns perpendicularly between his legs, 
where the folds of the bundahs intersect each other. 
A strong cable (the phand) with a running noose, 
sixty cubits long, is next put round each hind leg, 
immediately above the bundahs, and again above 
