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found in a few places, being quite unknown in parts of India and the adjoining islands. Most of the wood comes, I was told, from Java, and we found in Moulmain and Rangoon large and flourishing industries devoted to teak. What most interested us in our visit to the yards was the manner in which the elephant is used as an animal of burden.

We have seen more or less of the elephant in our Indian travels, but always under circumstances to inspire respectpetted, decorated with joyous trappings in the suite of a rajah, or as a war animal in the British army. It seemed like a degradation to see an animal holding so high a place in our imagination hauling logs around a lumber yard. The elephant on the peninsula is a more amiable creature than his brother in Africa, and all through the Malay peninsula he serves as a beast of burden. In Ceylon and some parts of India he has done duty as game, but the Indian government has interfered and prevented the killing of the elephant, or even capturing him in his wild state except by permission of the authorities and for specified useful purposes. The extent to which the elephant can be trained is remarkable. His strength is enormous, and to this power he adds intelligence. He will lift the largest teak logs, and teak is among the heaviest of woods, and arrange them in piles. He will push a log with his foot against the saw, and carry the sawed wood in his tusks or his trunk. In all these maneuvers he is directed by the mahout, who sits on his neck and manages him with a goad, or more generally by a word. Sometimes an elephant is so wild and untamable as to be dangerous, and yet he will serve his masters. We saw one animal, who was pushing logs about, who had killed four or five of the workmen. He was kept in order by a lad who carried a sharp spear keeping the spear always near the elephant's eye. The elephant submitted to the moral influence of a pointed blade in the hands of a puny boy.

The spear is really only a moral influence. If the elephant really wished to attack the keepers a spear would be of little use beyond a stab or two. The memory of these stabs, however, was as effective to the elephant as chains or thongs,

and he rolled his logs about in the most submissive manner. The manner in which the elephant kills a victim is to rush upon and trample him, or to throw him in the air with the trunk and trample him when he falls. The animal has im

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mense power in the trunk, delicacy and precision in touch, as

well as crushing strength.

He will pick up a banana or a wisp of grass as surely as a log. The difficulty about using the elephant as we saw it used is the cost. He is an expensive animal, and the cost of supplying him with fruit or bread is large. This

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is diminished at such places as Moulmain or Rangoon by wing him to roam in the jungle and eat branches and leaves, as we turn the horse loose on the village common. Even however, is attended with trouble, for the elephant will etimes wander into the jungle and not return. In that case tamer elephants are sent after, who capture and punish the sant brute. There is no efficient way of punishing the hant except by the aid of other elephants. A few days bewe came to Rangoon one of the animals demurred to go boat. Two others were marched up, and, under the direcs of the mahout, they pounded the resisting animal with r trunks until, for his life's sake, he was glad to embark. phants learn the ways of civilized labor. When the bell s for dinner he will drop his log and march away. If he been trained to rest on Sunday, no power can make him k on the seventh day of rest. He must have that day. for frolic in the jungle. As a general thing the elephant never omes really dangerous except at periodical times. There belief that he will not breed in captivity; but this is not ne out by the experiences of those who own elephants in mah. As labor-saving machinery is introduced, the use of elephant is abandoned, and in a short time I suppose he be given up altogether as a laborer in lumber yards and -mills.

On March 28th we came to Penang. It was necessary for to advance slowly on account of the narrow channels and cherous current. The authorities received General Grant h great distinction, regretting they could not fire a salute ause of the serious illness of a British officer in the fort. Borie did not feel equal to the task of the long drive to Government House On the 29th of March there was a eption at the town-hall. Addresses were presented to neral Grant by the British residents and the Chinese.

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