Elephant dance (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
000153
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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brothers. An angry trumpeting came from further Among the ahead and on another side other great beast sounds. *icr" We had wandered squarely into the middle of the herd and were completely surrounded. Might they not close in on us? Muthanna said afterwards that they might have done. We turned back on our path, on the same path down which the tusker had been following us. Where was he by now? The big cow to the left of us still took no heed. (We heard afterwards that she was calving.) The three trackers were trotting ahead, when the Jemadar's low warning whistle sounded again. The trackers fell back and we all stopped while something crashed off into the bushes. He was standing behind a bush by the path, Muthanna said, when the Jemadar saw him. Muthanna said he was waiting there to waylay us. How the Jemadar would like to catch that herd in a keddah. But he can't. No keddah could hold a herd like that with all those tuskers. Such a herd was never seen here before. But we can try to drive them through a clearing and take pictures from machans. These forests had been the scene of many famous elephant drives or 'keddahs', superbly organized. All through the forest were forest huts and forest rangers experienced and seasoned to the work. Four miles from Karapur was Mastagudy, the elephant camp, 103