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eight or ten days, during which he was in the 
keddah , and even while he was tying in the out- 
let, appeared equally wild and fierce as the boldest 
elephant then taken ; so that he was not even sus- 
pected of having been formerly taken, till he was 
conducted from the outlet. The moment, how- 
ever, he was addressed in a commanding tone, the 
recollection of his former obedience seemed to rush 
upon him at once ; and, without any difficulty, he 
permitted a driver to be seated on his neck, who in 
a few days made him as tractable as ever. 
These and several other instances which have oc- 
curred, clearly evince that elephants have not the 
sagacity to avoid a snare into which they have, even 
more than once, fallen. 
While Mr. Bruce, in his return from Gondah, 
was spending a few days at the house of Ayto 
Confu, which he describes as delightfully situated 
on the edge of a precipice, he availed himself of 
the opportunity to join a party which had met for 
the purpose of hunting the elephant; and, as he 
gives a particular description of the Abyssinian me- 
thod of destroying that noble animal, we shall pro- 
ceed to lay his account before our readers. 
££ Though we were all happy to our wish in this 
enchanted mountain, the active spirit of Ayto Confu 
could not rest. He was come to hunt the ele- 
phant, and hunt him he would. All those that un- 
derstood any thing of this exercise had assembled 
from a great distance, to meet Ayto Confu at 
Tcherkin. He and Engedan, from the moment 
