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But no wild elephant has been known to face fire, hence the fire lines. The only animal, Bob says, that isn't afraid of fire is the bull moose. He will charge it, even charge the headlights of a locomotive. The Stockade Our keddah has grown from a 'chance' keddah on a made stronger smaU scale to tne traditional large-scale organized 'drive'; all on account of these big tuskers in the herd, and so many of them. It is evidently a very rare thing to have so many tuskers. In one keddah of eighty elephants caught only one was a tusker and he not so very big. Hence the renewed hammering and business at the stockade.
They are busy reinforcing it, driving a second row of uprights and buttressing them all around. Also they are hollowing out enormous logs of a wood that is water tight for drinking troughs to water the elephants in the stockade. The stockade is on one of the paths by which the elephants cross the river. All the other paths or runways for a mile on either side have been barricaded, as also any place in the bank not steep enough to form a natural barricade. The lay of the land is really ideal. It is ideal for us that this is all traditional work, too. Origin of The origin of these keddahs was with Sanderson, Mysore ^^ qJJ vears ag0) when he was Forest Officer for Mysore. He introduced keddah catching, which he learned in Assam. His book is the classic on the subject. But it was Muthanna's father some time in the
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