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 . erament common to these first-classanimals, and was easily managed a few days after capture. He wasdesigned for the Viceregal State howdah, being the finest elephant cap-tured in Bengal for many years ; but he died after I left Dacca—from whatcause I have not learnt. The Dwasala class comprises all animals below this standard, but whichdo not present such marked imperfection as to cause them to rank asMeergas, or third-rates; all
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 . erament common to these first-classanimals, and was easily managed a few days after capture. He wasdesigned for the Viceregal State howdah, being the finest elephant cap-tured in Bengal for many years ; but he died after I left Dacca—from whatcause I have not learnt. The Dwasala class comprises all animals below this standard, but whichdo not present such marked imperfection as to cause them to rank asMeergas, or third-rates; all ordinary elephants (about seventy per cent) areDwasalas. A pronounced Meerga is the opposite to the Koomeriah. He is leggy,lank, and weedy, with an arched, sharp-ridged back, difficult to load, andliable to galling; his trunk is thin, flabby, and pendulous; his neck longand lean; he falls off behind; and his hide is thin. His head is small,which is a bad point in any elephant; his eye is piggish and restless. Hiswhole appearance is unthrifty, and no feeding or care makes him look Meerga, however, has his uses; from his length of leg and lightness he. I Q. LJ_lLJ I< or OO -
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