| Show cracy ELEPHANTS A forto of ft lines afflicts tho llido luno tm when we pru the elephant in possession of such intellectual gifts as may be hit there lias has to be considered the ease case of the elephant that being is for a time bereft of 0 its genres sen cs 11 is only the male suffers from this affliction of inba rity but every male I 1 in I 1 liable to it some time or other antl and unfortunately may be at by it without Iv warning arning of any itina sonic some men of lon ion experience of elephant keeping say hay that the condition is ih preceded by premonitory symptom arid and if in time may by diet and treatment be averted but without presuming to contradict those better informed people I 1 can aver that I 1 have known some of them to be taken by surprise by the sudden austing mu sting of elephants under their own imme immediate diale supervision sonic some elephants says magazine become lemons demons of cruelty when must as for example a commissariat missa riat elephant that during my time in budh broke away from the lucani v lines and ami went over a considerable sid erable t lct ct of col country lutry killing men women and children wherever it found an opportunity of cil doing so 1 I 10 lo do not remember the total number killed by that beast but it was wa sadly large and of course valuable as the animal was to the government only one anc course could be pursued in regard to it the sentence passed upon it was that of death and the execution was carried out not without di difficulty faculty and danger to the executioners execution ers by several europeans who followed and shot it down |
