SAGACITY AND AFFECTION. 
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Even when domesticated, especially during the 
love season, the elephant, according to Mr. Corse, 
not unfrequently evinces blind fury, at least towards 
his congeners. On one occasion this gentleman 
saw a stately male elephant gore two smaller ones, 
in the midst of the herd, in a terrific manner. 
“ When the poor animals were thrown down, con¬ 
scious of their impending fate, they roared most 
piteously ; but notwithstanding their prostrate 
situation and submissive cries, he unfeelingly and 
deliberately drove his tusks through them, and 
transfixed them to the ground . 55 
But whether or not the elephant be the harmless 
creature he is represented by many, certain it is 
that to the sportsman he is the most formidable of 
all the beasts, the lion not excepted, that roam the 
African wilds; and few there are who make the 
pursuit of him a profession, that do not, sooner or 
later, come to grief of some kind. 
Elephants, at times, show much solicitude for, 
and attachment to, each other, and many instances 
are on record in which, when one of these animals 
has been wounded and disabled, a comrade has 
come to the rescue. A very affecting incident of 
the kind is related by Moodie. 
“ On this occasion,” says that gentleman, when 
describing a hunt, ec we witnessed a touching in¬ 
stance of affection and sagacity in the elephant, which 
deserves to be related, as it so clearly illustrates the 
character of the noble animal. Seeing the danger 
and distress of her mate, the female from which I 
so narrowly escaped, regardless of her own danger. 
