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74 or village. When a coniderable number of them, is collected in this manner, they are regularly trained by the hotteewallies, for the ue of the Nabobs and other great men; and when rendered by age unfit for their amuements, they erve to carry the equipage of camps and other burdens. Under the management of their tutors, they are taught to do any thing, and, in a hort time, become as tractable as the hores of the molt famous riders in Europe.

It is related of one of them, that when the child of it's keeper, lay ome time in a cradle, crying for want of nouriment, in the abence of the parents, this huge but