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and towards Wales, and amongst the rockie killes, by 
whome the owners doo reape no small advantage ( Holin- 
shed, vol. i. p. 372, ed. 1807). “ Not for Cadwallader and 
all his goats,” exclaims Pistol (Henry V., v. 1, 29). 
Many accounts of hunting and training the Elephant 
ei h t are ^ oun( ^ * n travels collected by 
Purchas and Hakluyt, together with numerous 
anecdotes of the sagacity of this animal, which have 
become the stock in trade of all subsequent writers on 
natural history. The Great Mogul is described by Captain 
William Hawkins, in the year 1610, as having three 
hundred elephants royal, which are elephants whereon he 
himself rideth:— 
“ And when they are brought before him, they come with great 
jollitie, having some twentie or thirty men before them with small 
stremers. When hee rideth on progresse or hunting, the compasse of 
his tents may bee as much as the compasse of London and more, and 
I may say, that of alf sorts of people that follow the campe, there are 
two hundred thousand ; for hee is provided, as for a citie. This king 
is thought to be the greatest Emperour of the East, for wealth, land, 
and force of men; as also for horses, elephants, camels, and dromedaries.” 
(Purchas, vol. p, 219.) 
His Majesty’s time must have been fully employed if he 
had to keep so large a number of elephants in exercise. 
The elephant, or “ carry-castle,” according to the 
herald, Guillim— 
“ is a beast of great strength, but greater wit, and greatest ambition, 
insomuch, that some have written of them, that if you praise them, 
they will kill themselves with labour; and if you commend another 
above them, they will break their hearts with emulation. The beast 
is so proud of his strength, that he never bows himself to any, neither 
indeed can he; and when he is once down, as usually is the case with 
proud great ones he cannot rise up again.” (Display of Heraldry, 
p. 146, ed. 1744.) 
The popular idea that the elephant has no joints in his 
legs, often occurs in plays :— 
