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is given, and all the people immediately make a 
noise and use their rattles, to cause them to keep at 
a greater distance. In this manner they are gra- 
dually brought to the keddah , or place where they 
are to be secured. As the natives are extremely 
slow in their operations, they seldom bring the 
herd above one circle in a day, except on an emer- 
gency, when they exert themselves and advance 
two circles. They have no tents or covering but 
the thick woods, which during the day keep off 
the rays of the sun ; and at night they sleep by the 
fires they have lighted, upon mats spread on the 
ground, wrapt up in a piece of coarse cloth. The 
season is then so mild that the people continue 
very healthy; and an accident seldom happens, ex- 
cept to stragglers about the outskirts of the wood, 
who are sometimes, though very rarely, carried 
off by tigers. The heddah , or place where the 
herd is to be secured, is differently constructed in 
different places : here it consists of three enclosures, 
communicating with each other by means of nar- 
row openings or gateways. The outer enclosure, 
or the one next to the place where the elephants 
are to enter, is the largest ; the middle one is ge- 
nerally, though not always, the next in size, and 
the third, or furthermost, is the smallest: these pro- 
portions, however, are not always adhered to in the 
making of a keddah ; nor indeed does there appear 
to me any reason for making three enclosures : but 
as my intentions are merely to relate facts, I shall 
proceed to observe, that when in the third or last 
