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ELEPHANT CAPTURING IN TRAVAN- 
CORE, 
SEVERAL Indian forests are tenanted by wild 
elephants, and they have, of late, become a 
danger to the cultivators, so much so that rep- 
resentations to remove the restrictions placed 
on the shooting of elephants have become 
numerous. In India, elephants are found along 
the base of the Himalaya as far west as Dehra 
Dun; also in the forest tracts lying between the 
Ganges and the Kistna as far west as Bilaspur 
and Mandala along the Western Ghats, and in 
Mysore. Elephants, as a rule, live in herds. 
Each herd is captained by a rogue elephant, 
a huge tusker of grand proportions and im- 
mense strength. It is only at times that these 
elephant herds stray out and fall victims to the 
skill of man. It is very fortunate that by nature 
they take more delight in the sequestered range 
of mountains, there to ‘‘roam the jungle free” 
and drink the stream unbrewed than in the low 
plains. Otherwise whole kingdoms would be 
laid waste. Elephants are supposed to live to 
the age of an extremely old man. Mr. San- 
derson has fixed the age from 150 to 200 years. 
They are intelligent animals, 4nd can be edu- 
cated to perform certain acts. It is in shifting 
logs that they prove themselves of much use. 
Again they have great power of remembering 
wrongs. Linschoten has the following: “But 
he that hurleth them he must take heed, for 
they never forget when any man doeth them 
injuries until they be avenged.” Many stories 
are current regarding this particular trait of 
the elephants, and it is not necessarv to enter 
into them here. 
Indian elephants are decidedly superior to 
the specimens brought from Ceylon or Africa, 
and of them the Travancore elephants are more 
handsome and of better build than those met 
with in other parts of India. The head of a good 
Travancore elephant is large and majestic; it 
is especially broad across the forehead and well- 
rounded. Other noticeable features of a 
Travancore elephant are thick tusks and massive 
shoulders. For this and other . reasons, es- 
pecially the value of the ivory, elephants are 
considered to be very useful animals and valu- 
able assets to the State. Their indiscriminate 
destruction has consequently been prohibited 
by the Government which have introduced cer- 
tain particular methods to capture these denizens 
of the forest. For sometime the Mysore 
kheddah system was tried here.* About the 
year 1874, the attention of the Conservator of 
Forests was drawn to the great mortality among 
the elephants which fell into pits, and in 1876 
a kheddah was established at Konni. This’ was 
used till 1885 by which time 100 animals were 
caught. 
It was very successful in the beginning, but 
its existence became known to the elephants 
and latterly there were no captures; so it was 
closed temporarily. The old system of captur- 
ing in pits was again resorted to. We shall 
give a short description of the same here. 
Every year large numbers of elephants are 
captured in pits, and the method adopted is 
neither difficult nor complicated. The tracks 
frequented by these elephant herds are ascer- 
tained and pits 12 feet in diametet at the top 
and 9g feet in diameter at the bottom with a 
depth of 12 feet are dug along such tracks in 
groups of three thus °°°, Layers of grass, 
leaves, etc., are deposited at the bottom of 
these pits. This is done with the object of 
breaking the fall of the ‘captives.’ The next 
thing is to conceal the existence of the pits, 
and for this the pits are covered at the top with 
cross twigs, leaves, grass, sand, ete. When 
the “fall” takes place, the Forest Range Officer 
and coolies repair to the spot immediately with 
decoy elephants for releasing the captive ele- 
phant. A noose cord is passed round the neck 
of the “captive” and three attached cords that 
branch off from the noosed cord are taken up 
by the decoy elephants, one in front and the 
other two on either side of the “captive.” An- 
other noosed cord is then thrown round one of 
the hind legs and taken up by another decoy 
elephant. In the absence of a fourth decoy ele- 
phant, able-bodied coolies might be made to 
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