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fent domefficated in Africa , only in the more civi¬ 
lized continent of Afia ; they are much more nt> 
merous in Africa , in feme parts fwarni, fo that the 
negroes afe obliged to make their habitations under 
ground for fear of them* Are killed and eaten by 
the natives j the trunk faid to be a delicious morfei: 
caught in pit-falls, covered with branches of trees; 
fonietimes chaced and killed with launees, are in- 
fiantly killed by a flight wound in the head, behind 
the ears. All the teeth are brought from Africa ; 
frequently picked up in the woodsuncertain whe¬ 
ther fhed teeth, or from dead animals : the African 
teeth * which come from Mofmnbique are 10 feet 
long thofe of Malabar only 3 or 4 *, the largeft in 
Afm are thofe of Cochin-China , which even exceed 
the elephants of Mofamhique **. The fkin is thick, 
and when drefifed, proof againft a muiket ball: the 
Eefh, the gall, the ikin. The bones, according to 
Shi Chin ., are ufed in medicine f. 
Is, notwithftanding the great dullnefs of its eye 
and ftupidity of its appearance, the moft docil and 
moft intelligent of animals: tradable and moll 
obedient to its mailer’s will: lenfible of benefits, 
refentful of injuries: dire&ed by a flight rod of 
iron hooked at one end: are in many parts of In* 
dia the executioners of j office ; will with their 
trunks break every limb of the criminal, or tram¬ 
ple him to death, or transfix him with their tufks, 
according as they are direfted: are fo mo deft as 
never to permit any one to fee them copulate: have 
* DeQan f <voy. 74., 
** Born, 795. 
t bu Baida 'China, II. 224. 
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