Under large trees, some little distance away, the elephants were chained, and not far off were stables for the horses.

One of the strangest adventures that the Maharajah had was when, returning to camp one evening, he was informed that one of his largest and best elephants, "Kennedy", had got stuck in quicksand.

At last, the combined labours of men and brother-elephants provided a safe footing of submerged saplings and branches; and "Kennedy" pulled himself out of the treacherous sand and was escorted back to the camp with great rejoicings.

The guests stood ready outside their tents and the elephants were waiting to carry them into the forest.

Just as the foremost elephants were about to kneel to permit their riders to dismount, there arose from the "stop" elephants a cry of "Tiger".

Just as the foremost elephants were about to kneel to permit their riders to dismount, there arose from the "stop" elephants a cry of "Tiger".

As rhino generally fight shy of elephants, they did not think there was much use continuing the beat after lunch.

A long straight line of march is formed, and each gun elephant is in between the pad or beating elephants.

"Beat this piece of jungle", the Maharajah quickly ordered the pad elephants with him.

For this, salmon swim their river, elephants remember, wild geese call out at dusk.

The eastern continent had then, as now, its great pachyderms, elephants, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus; South America its armadillos, sloths, and ant-eaters; Australia a crowd of marsupials; and the very strange birds of New Zealand had predecessors of similar strangeness.

" "What is it?" "Oh, a lot of trash about his having traveled all over the world, been captured by pirates and cannibals, fought gorillas and tigers, shot elephants and so forth.

I'd as lief undertake to keep a span of elephants,and take an ostrich to board, too,as to marry one of 'em.

The Lattakoos eat, with equal zest, the flesh of elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, giraffes, quaggas, &c.; and sometimes, under an idea that it confers valour, human flesh, of which they have otherwise great abhorrence.

The king of Siam has at present a bodyguard of four hundred women; they are armed with lance and rifle, are admirably disciplined, and their commander (appointed after saving the king's life at a tiger-hunt) ranks as one of the royal family and has ten elephants at her service.

In this way seventy wild elephants were captured for the purpose of government labour.

The tame elephants daily take each wild one singly to water and to feed, until they become quite tame and docile.

The remaining elephants were shot by the people.

Elizabeth Johnston (E); 20Jan56; R163829. Elephants across the country, pt. 1-2.

Elizabeth Johnston (E); 20Jan56; R163829. Elephants across the country, pt. 1-2.

The Seven little elephants.

The Mayan elephants.

y through the monstrous gateway in a little Victoria, feeling all the time that none but elephants in all their glory of barbaric caparison could pass through such a portal worthily.

The tigers' tails and the elephants' trunks, the alligators' snouts and the boa constrictor's convolutions, he recognized at once.

The swamp ended in a dry jungle, interspersed with palm trees, elephants, lions, tigers, and serpents.