. Un système d'histoire naturelle : contenant des scientifiques [sic] et des descriptions populaires de l'homme, des quadrupèdes, des oiseaux, des poissons, des reptiles et des insectes. Il fait tout ce que son maître lui commande.s'il lui ordonne d'effrayer une personne, il avance vers lui v/ith de la furie thesame comme s'il le déchirait en morceaux; et Avhen il vient près de lui,il arrête de faire de la mort, sans lui faire de mal. Si le maître veut toaffront un autre, il parle à l'éléphant, qui prend avec son tronc dirtywater, et le jette à son visage. Le Mogul a des éléphants pour l'execu-tion des criminels condamnne

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. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . na simple, natural instinct. He does whatever his master commands him.If he orders him to frighten any person, he advances towards him v/ith thesame fury as if he would tear him to pieces; and Avhen he comes near him, he stops sliort, without doing him any harm. If the master wishes toaffront another, he speaks to the elephant, who takes with his trunk dirtywater, and throws it at his face. The Mogul has elephants for the execu-tion of criminals condemned to deq.th. If their leader bids them to dispatchthese wretches soon, they tear them to pieces in a moment with their feet;on the contrary, if he commands them to make these criminals languish, they break their bones one after another, and make them suffer torments ascruel as those of the wheel. 292 MAMMALIA—ELEPHANT. The celebrated white elephant, which is the only one in the possession ofthe king of Ava, is of a cream color, and has no appearance of disease ordebility. It was taken in 1806, when young, in the forests of Pegu, and is. about tAventy-seven years old. Both the court and people consider it pecu-liarly inauspicious to want a white elephant; hence the repute in whichthey are held, and the anxiety to obtain them. The capture of a whiteelephant is consequently highly rewarded.

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