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three times before they got a fair shot at him, and 
this without trumpeting, or the least warning. It 
was well known to the natives living in that locality 
that he had fought with, and been wounded by, 
another elephant, so that, for some time, he showed 
signs of weakness, from which, however, he gradually 
recovered, and w r as at length killed by the Kruman 
hunters on the highway between the Yie Falls and 
Linganti, where he molested almost every traveller 
that passed. Upwards of two hundred shots 
had been fired at this beast, and then the hunters 
abandoned him in despair ; but next day he was 
found dead.” 
The natives of India are said to distinguish 
elephants by the shape of their tusks. Thus 
they have “ Putterig ” (a bed or cot) ; <c Soor ” 
(a hog) ; “ Ankoos” (a crook), and so forth, accord¬ 
ing to the resemblance of the tusk to these several 
objects. In order, moreover, to make the tusks 
grow thicker, or perhaps for the sake of uniformity, 
they (the natives of India) cut off portions of the 
tusks of the living animals whilst young. 
Elephants having only one tusk, without even the 
rudiments of another, are occasionally met with in 
Southern Africa. When this is the case, the tusk, 
the natives assure me, is invariably of an enormous 
size. An animal of this kind (the tusk must also 
be of a particular shape) is highly prized by the 
Hindoo Princes, by whom it is kept in state, and 
worshipped as a divinity. The Hindoo God of 
Wisdom (Ganesa) is represented with a head like an 
elephant, with only one tooth. 
