Elephant dance (1937)

Page scan 00075 from Elephant dance

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
00075
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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creatures by scent and sound you are only one of Our First them. Animals don't look up as a rule, and anyway Shikar as they accept the cow elephant on which you ride as a « • f wild one. They pay no attention; you go among them like Mowgli. Ahead of you, of course, go the little jungle men. They arc your eyes and ears, seeing everything, hearing everything, knowing every sign. Without them one might wander days and days and the forest be as empty of life and silent as a tomb. The Trackers They tread ahead of you, stepping warily, planting their feet firmly and cautiously on the jungle ground. The elephants follow in single file, the head elephant breaking trail, bending trees out of the way with his head and breaking them with his foot, reaching with his trunk to break away the branches overhead. Slow progress but steady, down deep 'nullahs' (ravines) when the howdah is almost straight up and down and the elephant places each foot with the utmost care and stretches his hind legs straight out behind to act as a brake, climbing the other side by doubling up his forelegs at the knees and pushing himself up, up, encouraged, of course, by the 'hup, hup' of his mahout. The nullahs are exciting, for there in the soft mud or sand will be marks clear enough for the veriest amateur to read. I saw the pug marks of a tiger, its five cushions as fresh as paint, and the track of 51