ELEPHANT. 
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<c The elephant was a female, and was taken at 
first with a herd of many others, in the year 1765, 
by rajah Kishun Maunick, who, about six months 
after, gave her to Abdoor Rezah, a man of some 
rank and consequence in the district. In 1767, the 
rajah sent a force against this Abdoor Rezah, for 
some refractory conduct, who, in his retreat to the 
hills, turned her loose into the woods, after having 
used her above two years as a riding elephant. In 
January 177° she was retaken by the rajah ; but 
in April 1771 she broke loose from her pickets, in 
a stormy night, and escaped to the hills. On the 
25th of December 1782 she was driven by Mr. 
Leeke’s elephant hunters into a kecldah ; and, the 
day following, when Mr. Leeke went to see the 
herd that had been secured, this elephant was point- 
ed out to him by the hunters, and particularly by a 
driver who had had charge of her for some time, 
and well recollected her. They frequently called 
to her by name, to which she seemed to pay some 
attention, by immediately looking towards them 
when her name Juggut-peauree was repeated ; nor 
did she appear like the wild elephants, which were 
constantly running about the keddah in a rage, but 
seemed perfectly reconciled to her situation. From 
the 25th of December to the 13th of January (a 
space of eighteen days) she never went near enough 
the outlet (or roomee) to be secured ; from a recol- 
lection, perhaps, of what she had twice before suf- 
fered. Orders, however, had been given not to per- 
mit her to enter the outlet, had she been so in- 
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