Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . nd never rest till it was rolling on smoothly he would return to his own proper place and duty in the line morning, in the press of wagons and animals, one of the elephantswas hurt by the heavy wheel of a cart running over his foot. I happenedto be near, and bound it up with a towel dipped in camphorated brandy,and tightened the bandage as well as I could, and off he li
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . nd never rest till it was rolling on smoothly he would return to his own proper place and duty in the line morning, in the press of wagons and animals, one of the elephantswas hurt by the heavy wheel of a cart running over his foot. I happenedto be near, and bound it up with a towel dipped in camphorated brandy,and tightened the bandage as well as I could, and off he limped to hisstable. In the afternoon I went to see how he was getting on. He waslying on a bed of straw; he recognized me at once, and held out hiswounded foot for me to see. I renewed the bandage each day; and afterthat the grateful animal never passed my tent without a peculiar ciy whichhe used for that occasion alone, and when he met me he always gently rub-bed my back or shoulders with his trunk, uttering little sniffs of pleasure. Major Skinner, of the English Army, vouches for the following story,which shows on the part of the elephant intelligence, memory, comparison,judgment, and (149) 150 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Riding along a very narrow trail near Kandy, in Ceylon, where he hap-pened to be stationed, he heard the heavy tread of an approachingelephant, uttering discontented grunts which frightened his rather ner-vous horse, and made him rear and plunge. He says: I soon saw whence these sounds proceeded. A tame elephant hadundertaken the difficult task of transporting a long girder, resting on histusks, over the narrow road. Between the trees on either side there wasnot room for this to pass, and he could only advance by turning his headfrom side to side and avoiding each tree as he went. It was a slowbusiness, and no wonder he complained; but on seeing how his trumpet-ings frightened my horse, he ceased instantly, threw down his load,and pressed his huge
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