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THE ELEPHANT. 
when the rush is over, he reloads, though without 
dismounting, and renews the attack in like manner 
as before. Once in a time an elephant will drop to 
a single ball, but more generally it requires several, 
or it may be very many, to lay him low. We read, 
indeed, of fifty, or even one hundred balls, being 
lodged in his body before that object has been 
accomplished. 
The following account of a very successful hunt 
on horseback, by Captain Harris, will, however, 
give the reader a far better idea of the manner 
in which matters are conducted than any descrip¬ 
tion of mine. 
After telling us that on the day preceding his 
party had, 66 from a commanding eminence, seen the 
face of the highly picturesque landscape covered 
with these stately beasts browsing in indolent 
security, and bathing in the pillowed stream,” he 
goes on to say :— <e The elephants, nearly all females, 
were at least one hundred in number, and on being 
attacked they 
“ Trampling their path through wood and brake, 
And canes, which crackling fell before their way,” 
rushed frantically down a ravine with upraised ears 
and tossing trunks, screaming wildly, and levelling 
everything before them. A shot fired from the 
bank, while it sealed the fate of the leader, turned 
the rest back; and this persecution was re¬ 
peated until they became fairly stupefied. On one 
occasion they attempted to retrieve the day by a 
