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ENTRAINING ELEPHANTS AT JHANSI. 
as that recommended by the late Colonel P. Sanderson, Superintendent 
of Kheddahs, Mysore : — 
Four ropes were used, one for each foot. One end of each of these 
ropes was laid on the platform near the truck door, the other ends 
were passed through eye-bolts in the truck floor and through holes at 
the ends of the truck, the two ropes for the fore feet to the front, and 
those for the hind feet to the rear end of the truck, the ends of the 
ropes being passed round the buffers. 
The elephant having been brought up as near to the truck door as 
possible, the ropes were secured to the feet. With a stick or spear, if 
necessary, the animal was made to move each foot in turn a few inches 
at a time, and the slack on the rope was taken in. As soon as the 
elephant was in the cage the bars were put up at the entrance, the feet 
lashed together with a figure-of-eight lashing, and the cross-bars 
clamped close to the chest and hind-quarters. 
The first entrainment of the elephants took between seven and eight 
hours, while the second was completed in one hour and 40 minutes. 
The truck was attached to an engine and moved up and down the 
line several times, and no damage of any sort either to elephants or 
truck occurred. 
