148 The Animal-Lore of Shahspeare s Time. 
places for the strongest and stoutest eliphants appointed for the service 
of the king’s person, and amongst all other eliphants, he hath foure 
that be white, a thing so rare that a man shall hardly finde another 
king that hath any such, and if this king knowe any other that hath 
white eliphantes, he sendeth for them as a gift.” ( Hakluyt, vol. ii'. 
p. 363.) 
