The diminution in the number of elephants with the opening up of the remoter districts must in time cause a falling-off in this export.
The sovereign is sole proprietor of all the elephants in his dominions; and the privilege to keep or ride on one is only granted to men of the first rank.
I forgot to tell you that elephants of the most handsome and valuable kind run here in herds, as the wild boars do in the forests of Europe; while the brilliant peacock and bird of paradise occupy the places of our rooks and swallows.
The keeper commandeth his tyger; the Ethiopian Player commandeth his elephants to fall upon their knees, and to walke upon a rope; so a wise-man is skilfull to subdue euil things.
The elephants and cavalry formed the van of the marching body; he himself, examining everything around, and intent on every circumstance, followed with the choicest of his infantry.
The Hindoos made the hemispherical earth to be supported upon four elephants, and the four elephants to stand on the back of an immense tortoise, which itself floated on the surface of a universal ocean.
Faúr too pushed forward with his two thousand elephants in advance; but when the Kanújians beheld such a formidable array they were surprised, and Faúr anxiously inquired from his spies what it could be.
The elephants were immediately loaded with treasure, a crown of gold, and other articles of value, and a messenger was dispatched, charged with an acknowledgment of guilt and abundant expressions of repentance.
And when you come on parade next time leave—ah—your elephants in your billet.
So, if making elephants gives some people the greatest possible pleasure in life, why not let them make elephants?
Therefore, being later in point of time than the separation, they could no more get over to Australia than the elephants and tigers and rhinoceroses could.
All the elephants in the world could have been hunted down and annihilated, in all probability, with far less labour than has been expended upon one single little all but microscopic parasite in France alone.
Elephants are very numerous in the interior of Africa, but they appear to be a distinct species from those found in Asia.
Perhaps the barbarous practice of hunting the African elephants for the sake of their teeth, has rendered them more untractable and savage, than they were found to be in former times.
Luckily at this instant Jana let off one of his archangel kind of trumpetings which started our beast again, since it was more afraid of elephants than it was of water.
Yet many elephants have been here, Lord," and he pointed to the ground.
Amongst other creatures there were elephants in plenty that travelled hither out of the bushlands we had passed, or sometimes emerged from the desert itself, suggesting that beyond this waste there lay fertile country.
He was right; many elephants had travelled this path--one quite recently.
I don't know which was the more frightened, the sick cow or the camel, for camels hate elephants as horses hate camels until they get used to them.
It was probable that we should never reach the district where these Kendah were supposed to dwell, but at least I might be able to kill some elephants in the wild country beyond Zululand.
It was in its own way as waste and even more impressive than the graveyard of elephants by the lonely lake.
If you will come and kill it, we will show you the place where all the elephants go to die, and you shall take their ivory, many wagon-loads, and grow rich.
Then he went on: "You also, Lord Macumazana, work for a reward, the countless store of ivory which your eyes have beheld lying in the burial place of elephants beyond the Tava River.
In the early days of railroading elephants and other wild animals frequently tore up the tracks.
Until recently the telegraph service was considerably impaired by the curiosity of elephants who insisted upon knocking down the poles.
The keeper had just set down for one of the elephants a bucket of water which a perspiring youth had brought in.
Everybody roared, and one of the otherelephants joined in with trumpetings, so huge and jolly was the joke.
Yet I have seen Paramoecium caudatum at play in a drop of water under a compound microscope, as I have seen elephants at play in their big bath-tub at the zoological gardens.
With tail in trunk, the elephantsrumble toward you along a sandstone roadway.
The suddenness and violence of the attack made near to us had the effect of turning the elephants aside, and the next instant they were tearing and wrenching themselves through the meshes of the tough and thorny vines.
At nights, when we encamped near to a river or pool of water, we saw immense numbers of elephants come down to drink and enjoy themselves.
We observed, on this journey, that the elephants which we met with in our farthest north point were considerably smaller than those farther to the south, yet though smaller animals, their tusks were much larger then those of the south.
But I had no time to think, for almost immediately after firing the shots at the lion, two elephants came crashing through the bushes.
It seemed as if no human power could kill them, and at that moment I almost doubted Peterkin's assertion that he had, while in Ceylon, actually killed elephants with a single ball.
At that moment I happened to cast my eyes across the river, and the reader may judge of my surprise when I beheld two elephants standing among the trees.
There were two elephants and four--or three, was it?
Both elephants tossed up their trunks, and elevating their great ears they dashed furiously into the bush; but the one that had been hit, after plunging head foremost down a low bank fell to the ground with a heavy crash, quite dead.
Many small water-courses were crossed, in some of which Mak pointed out a number of holes, which he said were made by elephants wading in them.
We all agreed to this, and shortly after we came to the place which elephants were known to frequent.
The hunters now prepared themselves for action, for the recent tracks of elephants were seen on the bank of the stream, and the natives said they could not be far off.
Eight elephantswere then yoked to it, and dragged it with their united strength; but neither were they able to go forward.
When elephants are tamed, the presence of the monitor elephants [p123] can usually be dispensed with at the end of two months, and the prisoner is afterwards ridden by its keeper.
I quite agree with you that some of the stories quoted to us about elephants require confirmation, and I always feel some distrust in reading the anecdote, related by Plutarch (De Solert.
Is it against the law for the Chief's slave to hunt elephants for the Chief?
Within the memory of man a large herd of elephants went over the Falls and whirled in the Boiling Pot below--a noble offering to the spirits who dwell there.
The elephants are urged forward to a large enclosure, into which the narrow end of the V opens.
Certainly there can be no more majestic sight than a herd of wild elephants in their native jungle.
The wide end of the V is often a mile or more across, and into this end a herd of wild elephants will be driven by great numbers of beaters.
The sportsmen are in open howdahs, and the elephants crash their way through the long grass, the reeds, the young bamboos, in search of the tiger.
The journey to the palace will be made uponelephants in howdahs carved and gilded and hung with rich curtains.
Tame elephants take a great share in this, and show much cleverness in bringing their wild brethren into captivity.
The answer is--the white ivory hunters have killed nearly all the elephants bearing good ivory.
The elephants of the great equatorial forest westward of the lake region will survive long after the last eastern elephant has bitten the dust.
Illustration] The children were now quite ready to leave the elephants to look at the ostriches and the storks.
You could'nt do it," said the boy who had refused to pull the elephants "front tail.
Thou wilt seeelephants enough," said the servitor, "but they do not often spend them upon the games.
There were four elephantsin one den, and he walked around among them, wondering at their size and at their peacefulness, while Ben Ezra told him of their intelligence and of their manner of fighting.
But where do the elephants and the tigers come in?
The ladies were timid about it; but Louis told his mother that she must get up into the howdah as though she had been riding elephants all her life, and she did so, the others following her example.
A number of female elephants were on an elevation near it; and it seemed as though they were placed there for the same reason that the ladies were admitted to the tournaments of the knights in England and France.
The elephants were made to kneel down as when the party mounted them, and they descended by means of ladders.
Elephants are not worked in this country," added Morris.
A little further on they came to a piece of open ground where the elephants had torn up a number of mimosa-trees and inverted them so that they might the more easily browse on the juicy roots.
Behind him he heard the crackling and crashing of branches caused by elephants bursting through the wood.
Frank, it is all very well for you to smile, you who have been away enjoying yourself for months past hunting elephants and other small game in the interior, but you have no notion how severely our failures are telling on our spirits.
Jerry turned and ran, but he had no chance; the elephants gained on him so fast that he felt, with an awful sickening of the heart, it was not possible to reach the rocky ground beyond the meadow, where he might have been safe.
As they advanced some of the groups of elephants came more distinctly into view, but they seemed either not to observe, or to disregard, the intruders.
Large game was also abundant, and one day the footprints of elephants were discovered.
As it is, I must knock over the elephants for myself--at least until the laws in question are rescinded.
Nearly a dozen varieties or breeds are thus established among the elephants of India that are held in a state of domestication.
White elephants are also met with, and are highly prized by the rajahs and wealthy nobles.
In ages long gone by there were elephants upon the earth--or animals resembling elephants--as much larger than the existing species as these are superior in size to other quadrupeds.
Another circumstance: the African elephants of our collections have been mostly obtained from the Cape, or the regions contiguous to it.
Those from the southern districts, and some of the larger islands, are larger and stronger than the elephants of Nepaul and other mountain countries in the north.
The Europeans prefer elephants of the mookna variety, as these are of milder disposition than the dauntelahs; but the natives prize the large-toothed kinds, taking the chance of being able to tame them to submission.
It has been further ascertained that the elephants of different Indian countries vary a good deal in point of size.
For a long time there was supposed to be only one; but this was an erroneous belief, and it is now proved that there are at least two, since the elephants of Africa and those of Asia are altogether different from each other.
There are in India, as well as in Africa, certain old bull elephants that lead a solitary life, and that are scarcely ever seen in company with the herds.
The African elephants are said also to be larger as they dwell nearer to the Equator; and from this it would appear that the elephant is essentially a tropical animal, and thrives best in the climate of the torrid zone.
Generally, however, the African elephants have the largest "ivories.
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