Elephant dance (1937)

Page scan 000134 from Elephant dance

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
000134
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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Lone Wild specially chosen cows. Five cows, laden with rope — Tusker! no thing else — disappeared into the jungle. We waited on the road. We were not to come in until after the Jemadar had the first rope around the tusker's leg and securely fastened to a tree. We waited, mounted on our elephants, ready to be called — 15 — 20 minutes, a half hour — and then went in . . . Wild Tusker Never have I imagined such an animal scene. Aside Capture from the struggles of the tusker uprooting bushes and knocking down a tree, and the clever way the mahouts tied him up, actually with one foot each on the tusker's back, it was the cow elephants that amazed me. The root of the matter is elephant nature. A tusker will never attack a cow; it is the jungle law. And so the cows know that they can do with him what they will. And their law is to serve their master, the mahout. Leaning with all their weight one on either side of the tusker, they wedged him between them so that he couldn't move (of course he thought he was being made love to, anyway), they flapped their ears in his eyes, so that he wouldn't see the Jemadar crawling under his belly to get at his leg, and they jammed his legs so that he couldn't kick. The Jemadar was entirely at the mercy of his cows. Putting the first rope on the tusker's leg was considered so dangerous that, as I have said, we were not allowed to come into the jungle to see it. 90