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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ve up, forthe time being, all hope of obtaining the coveted morsel. Hunting the Tiger with Elephants. THE accompanying picture presents an oft recurrent and, dramatic scene in East India, the wonderland of earthlysplendor. The esteem for nature which characterizesthe mind of the Hindu has moulded his entire system of worship.His religion bade him plant two trees for each one that he cutdown, and forbade him to kill an animal wantonly. This habitof mind furnishes a partial explanation for the existence of somany thousands of wild animals in the very midst of the swarm-ing population of India. The ravages of the tigers among thenatives are an appalling feature of life in India. The IndianBlue Book of 1875 shows that thirteen villages, taking up aterritory of 260 English square miles, were depopulated andmade utterly desolate by a tigress. Again, in 1869, a tigressis said to have devoured 127 people, and the loss of life bywild beasts for a period of six years was given as thirteen thou-
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Swan in Battle with a Fox. HUNTING THE TIGER WITH ELEPHANTS. 105 sand. Although, since the occupation of India by the British,the destructive firearms of the sportsman have already laidlow thousands of tigers, they are still numerous in many locali-ties, and years must elapse before mankind shall have accom-plished a complete victory over these beautiful pests. Atiger-hunt with elephants is a great pastime of the nativeprinces and wealthy English residents of India. Only thesteadiest and best-trained elephants can be employed for thischase, for if the elephant should flinch before the rush of thetiger he would expose his riders to great danger. Ordinarilysuch hunts are conducted with great pomp, and many elephantsare used in them. The elephants are driven slowly into thejungle by their drivers, who sit upon the necks of the animals.While all other wild animals that may be disturbed by the pon-derous march of the party are allowed to escape unmolested,the hunters keep a close watch for

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