| Show KINGS AMONG ELEPHANTS two fine casts tint that lead slaves 81 to walt wait on them it was our good fortune to ba present at an important meeting of the ebed dab at abla on the banks of tho the gauges ganges where the nepalese Nc palese government had bad sent down their magnificent troop of tome turne elephants for tho th i e chase of wild ones one they were about in number magnificent noble creatures writes a contributor to the boston journal the two finest among them were vere the kings of the troop landwere and were called callei bijil prasad and gaj prasad bihli prasad which means lord of lightning was vas such buell a grand fellows the width of his brows was so great that he could hot bot put bis his head bead through our ball door nud and he be knows to the smallest point what a mighty creature he is ho ile and his companion narlan gaj gai prasad which means the peerless lord are provided with two slave elephants and the only duty of the latter is is to fetch and provide fodder for bihli and gaj they do their duty right well at early dawn their mahouts ma houts or drivers drive them into their jungles and they work vork like real slaves they collect the sweet sugar panes tearing them up by the roots the young succulent grasses and tender leaves and heap them up in masses which weigh about pounds each these loads are put on oil their backs and thrice a day they gladly carry in their burdens and lay them at the feet of their lords we went out by moonlight to eee bee the latter fed and any any child would enjoy the strange sight right first of all the ma bont bout makes a great big campfire of twigs and brushwood and on it he places a large flat iron dish supported on two bricks then ho be takes wheat flour and kneads it with water into great round flat cakes about an inch thick and twice the circumference of a soup plate these cakes ho he bakes on the iron dish we were anxious to taste them then and ani we found them very good we punched out with our fingers all the nice brown spots and ate them piping hot and to make up to 11 hijii iiii and for taking part of their supper we had prepared a treat of which they aro are particularly foud fond fl from flow ow the bazaar we wo had bad brought great balls of sugar bugar bauo joice juice boiled down and made solid called goor in that country each baliwas ball was twice the tile size of a tennis ball and in each wheat cako cake or ca capati we rolled a lump lamp of this molasses ses you should have seen how bow the big beasts enjoyed their feed how their great trunks rested down on our shoulders always upturned for the forthcoming del delicacy icaco I 1 |
