Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . y often pass in safety; but when itonce gives way it is rapidly broken up in all directions. It is, fortunately,seldom deep enough to be dangerous. My mahout pushed my elephant onin the hope of getting over safely, as we were light, shouting to the menbehind to take another line; but the surface had been too much triedalready, and when we were almost over, through the elephant went, sinkingto her girths. An elephant never gets flu
Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . y often pass in safety; but when itonce gives way it is rapidly broken up in all directions. It is, fortunately,seldom deep enough to be dangerous. My mahout pushed my elephant onin the hope of getting over safely, as we were light, shouting to the menbehind to take another line; but the surface had been too much triedalready, and when we were almost over, through the elephant went, sinkingto her girths. An elephant never gets flurried in situations where a horsewould struggle and make matters worse; and by resting a portion of herweight on her curled trunk upon the firmer surface in front, she managed,after much surging and rolling about, to get through it. In a mile more we caught up the coolies who had preceded us some * Jooming is the method of cultivation common to all jungle-tribes, and consists in cuttingdown and burning the timber, the ground being relinquished after the one or two crops have beenobtained from it, the fertilising effect of the ash having worn out by that • _ i -t^ -+ s / * I i i *tw mrt % * mm m^ • f& K ^
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