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 . resigns himself to death. A nativewho accompanied Mr Cripps when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora,intimated to him that he was then in the immediate vicinity of the spot to which the elephants come to die, but that it was so mysteriously con-cealed that, although every one believed in its existence, no one had eversucceeded in penetrating to it. At the corral, which I have described atKornegalle, in 1847, Dekigame, one of th
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 . resigns himself to death. A nativewho accompanied Mr Cripps when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora,intimated to him that he was then in the immediate vicinity of the spot to which the elephants come to die, but that it was so mysteriously con-cealed that, although every one believed in its existence, no one had eversucceeded in penetrating to it. At the corral, which I have described atKornegalle, in 1847, Dekigame, one of the Kandyan chiefs, assured me itwas the universal belief of his countrymen that the elephants, when aboutto die, resorted to a valley in Saffragam, among the mountains to the eastof Adams Peak, which was reached by a narrow pass with walls of rock oneither side, and that here, by the side of a lake of clear water, they tooktheir last repose. This belief of a universal sepulchre is, however, quite untenable asregards Mysore, as there is no spot in its jungles that is not penetrated attimes by the Sholagas or Kurrabas. Nor is the idea defensible on
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