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Rh the elephants, on their way to the watering places, unacquainted with the danger before them, fall into the pit contrived by thee artful men who often rique their lives in the execution of uch hazardous projects. The old animals, by ome means, extricate themelves, and ecape to the Woods, but the young ones, who thus become an eay prey to their' puruers, are uffered to remain in, this ituation, for ome days without food, till they are almot pent, and unable to make any reitance: an eay decent is then opened into the pits or trenches, and collars thrown round their necks, after which they are mounted, and following a tame elephant as their leader, conducted with great facility to the next town or