CHAPTER XXXIV

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THE ELEPHANT.

Love of Solitude, and Pusillanimity--Miraculous Escape of an English Officer--Sagacity of the Elephant in ascending Hills-- Organisation of the Stomach--The Elephant’s Trunk--Use of the Tusks still Probmatical--The Rogue-Elephant--Sagacity of the Elephant--The African Elephant--Tamed in Ancient Times--South African Elephant-Hunting--Hair-Breadth Escapes--Abyssinian Elephant-Hunters--Cutting up of an Elephant--The Asiatic Elephant--Vast Numbers destroyed in Ceylon--Major Rogers-- Elephant-Catchers--Their amazing Dexterity--The Corral--Decoy Elephants--Their astonishing Sagacity--Great Mortality among the Captured Elephants--Their Services 431

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