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ELEPHANT. 
ftantly flopped, relented, took the greatefl of the 
children, placed him on its neck, adopted him for 
its Comae , and never afterwards would permit any 
body elfe to mount it. 
At the Cape of Good-Hope , it is cuflomary to 
kill thofe animals, for the fake of their teeth, by 
the chace. Three horfemen, well-mounted and arm¬ 
ed with launces, attack the Elephant alternately, each 
relieving the other as they fee their companion preffed, 
till the bead is fubdued. Three Dutchmen (brothers) 
who had made large fortunes by this bufinefs, de¬ 
termined to retire to Europe , and enjoy the fruits of 
their labors; but refolved, before they went, to 
have a lafl chace by way of amufement: they met 
with their game, and began the attack in the ufual 
manner but unfortunately one of their horfes fell 
down and flung its rider : the enraged animal in- 
flantly feized the unhappy man with its trunk, flung 
him up to a vaft height in the air, and received 
him on one of its tufks; then turning towards the 
two other brethren, as if it were with an afpedt of 
revenge and infult, held out to them the impaled 
wretch wreathing on the bloody tooth * ** . 
The Indians have from very early times employ¬ 
ed the elephant in their wars : Porus oppofed the 
paffage of Alexander, over the Hydafpes , with 
eighty-five of thefe animals; M. de Buffon very 
juflly imagines that it was fome of the elephants 
taken by that monarch, and afterwards tranfported 
into Greece, which were employed by Pyrrhus againfl: 
* Voyage de la Caille, 160. 
** Quint. Curtins, lib. viii, c. 42. 
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