THE RESCUE OE COMRADES. 
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Mr. Moodie’s testimony as to the elephant’s ex¬ 
tracting its comrade from the toils, is to the like 
effect as Mr. Green’s. He says : 
66 A few days before my arrival at Enon (a 
missionary station) a troop of elephants came down, 
one dark and rainy night, close to the outskirts of 
the village. The Missionaries heard them bellow¬ 
ing, and making an extraordinary noise for a long 
time, at the upper end of their orchard; but know¬ 
ing well how dangerous it is to encounter these 
powerful animals in the night, they kept close 
within their houses till daylight. Next morning, 
on examining the spot where they had heard the 
elephants, they discovered the cause of all this 
nocturnal uproar. There was at this spot a ditch, 
or trench, about four or five feet in width, and 
nearly fourteen in depth, which the industrious 
Missionaries had recently cut through the bank of 
the river, to lead out the water for the purpose of 
irrigating some portion of their garden-ground, 
and driving a corn-mill. Into this trench, which 
was still unfinished, and without water, one of the 
elephants had evidently fallen, for the marks of 
his feet were distinctly visible at the bottom, as 
well as the imprint of his huge body in its sides. 
How he had got into it was easy to conjecture; but 
by what means, being once in, he had contrived to 
get out again, was the marvel. By his own un¬ 
aided efforts it was obviously impossible for such 
an animal to have extricated himself. Could his 
companions have assisted him ? There can be no 
question that they had, though in what manner. 
