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frenzy and then pitted against each other. One will be painted red, or yellow, 
or blue, and the other white, or red, or green, in order that one may follow 
every movement of each combatant. They will fight until exhausted, trying 
to oppose head and jaw to each other’s horns, and thus to escape the throat 
thrust which finally gives the victory to the conqueror. Native attendants will 
from time to time throw water upon them that their energies may be taxed to 
the utmost. # 
Again, two male tusked elephants will be driven to combat with each 
other, and will shriek and struggle, and charge again and again until success 
falls to the share of one of them. 
Still again, a man will be pitted against an excited elephant, and the 
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spectators watch the contest between power and subtlety until either the elephant 
seizes the man and pins him to the ground with his knees, while it viciously 
gores him with his tusks, or the native, using the opportunity, succeeds in 
hamstringing his bulky foe. 
Yet again, rhinoceros and elephant will be joined in a death struggle; 
the one endeavoring to rip the other to pieces, and the other to put his enemy 
under his feet and grind him to powder. Two buffalo bulls will lock horns 
and butt each other, until at last one is successful in pushing back its foe, and 
forcing it to resign the contest; and finally, natives, with their hands clad 
in the skin and claws of the lion, the leopard, the tiger, or the panther, will 
fight like wild beasts until one or both fall dead. 
