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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
July, 1924
Top, left: Three good ones that will prey on man or beast no more.
Top, right: A shooting " hoixdah" •with the elephant kneeling for mounting.
Right: Beating the grass for a tiger. Note the heads of elephants which are being formed into a circle.
to chastise the beast or incite it to quick action. It has a sharp hook on one side for more severe operations on the flaps of their ears. It is marvelout what absolute control this tiny man has over such an enormous bulky beast. With almost human intelligence and without a spoken work the elephant will interpret his signal to pull down a limb, push over a whole tree with his head and foot, or even pick up the very cudgel from the ground which the mahout has accidently dropped only to be promptly banged over the head with for some indiscretion.
^An Early Respect for the Pachyderm.
My respect for an elephant began when as a small boy in Virginia I helped to carry water for the circus elephants in return for a free pass in
the "big tent." That respect has ever increased wherever I saw an elephant, whether it was roaming wild in the jungles of Africa or "piling teak" in the forests of Upper Burma. But getting back to the tiger shoot and cumbersome howdahs; it is customary to send these shooting elephants sometime in advance to the scene of a "kill" — the hunter covering the distance on "pad" elephants until near where the tiger is supposed to be hiding. A pad elephant is a fast walker, with a sort of miniature mattress fastened on its back by ropes, and used for a seat while travelling. The "pads" cover six miles an hour easily when urged, and save the hunter much time waiting for the ring to be formed.
€f Much Organization Required in Planning Shoot. Young buffalo calves are used for
bait or "kills." In our camp there were seventy baits put out each night within a radius of ten miles. The natives visit the baits at daybreak sending runners to report any "kills" together with such information as to the tracks, whether leopard, tiger, or the possible number of either, as sometimes several tigers track in numbers— often a tigress with two grown cubs. The nature of the country surrounding the kill is most important and is considered in stalking out the baits. Should two kills be reported, we would take the one that seemed the most feasible for ringing; or should the reports show three or four kills to have been made, the start would be in that direction bringing two or more kills nearest to visit; while natives would be posted in trees to report the directions taken by the tiger when it