Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . make an invertedY. just large enough to permit the passage of oneelephant at a time. The attitude of a herd on first realizing that ithas been trapped and cannot escape, varies accord-ing to the temperaments of its members and isenlightening, not to say enlivening, at times, tothe onlooker. For the herd, which without seriousopposition has permitted itself to be taken fromits jungle and driven, uttering scarcely an objec-tion through days and nights, will, when once inthe kraal, throw off its good manners and
Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . make an invertedY. just large enough to permit the passage of oneelephant at a time. The attitude of a herd on first realizing that ithas been trapped and cannot escape, varies accord-ing to the temperaments of its members and isenlightening, not to say enlivening, at times, tothe onlooker. For the herd, which without seriousopposition has permitted itself to be taken fromits jungle and driven, uttering scarcely an objec-tion through days and nights, will, when once inthe kraal, throw off its good manners and becomerampant. Some fight the posts, some fight oneanother; in groups they surge against the stoutsides of the enclosure, grunting prodigiously, andwherever a venturesome spectator shows a headbetween the post, he is charged. Not all the herdare so violent. Some show their perturbation bythrusting their trunks down into their stomach res-ervoir and drawing forth water which they squirtover their backs; others express contempt forthings generally by making little dust piles which. THE KINGS .MAHOUT they blow over everything in sight, including their own legs; some utter the mouthing Low note; somerap the ground with their trunks, thus knocking out several peculiar rattling crackling high calves squeak through their little trunksshrilly and frequently. The programme extends over three days; on thefirst, after the herd is corralled, the head mogul ofthe royal stables points out the young elephants tobe caught; on the second the selected captives arenoosed; and on the third day the remaining ele-phants are driven out and across the river and intothe jungle to wander at will, until such time ashis majesty issues commands for another royalhunt. The most interesting feature of the performancein the kraal is the work of the trained would never think from the peaceful, mildcountenance of the tusker, that he is in league withthe men on his back. He is the most ca
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