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Title: Afoot and afloat in Burma
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Williams, Alfred Henry, 1889-
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Publisher: Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Peekskill, N.Y. (etc.) Review and Herald Publishing Association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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heal. This, of course, would Good Elephants of Wild Ones 73 mean much loss to the owners, for elephantseat great quantities of food, whether theywork or not. Do you wonder what elephants eat?Well, they are very fond of hay and suchfood. There are stories told of some of thearmy elephants with which the Indian gov-ernment used to drag heavy guns. Thesefellows were very fond of chupatties, orIndian unleavened bread. This was servedout to them every day for food. When eachanimal received his pile of flat cakes, he care-fully balanced it on the end of his trunk,and could tell at once if he had been slighted. Wild elephants roam about the jungle,feeding on the grasses. The tame ones areoften allowed to graze in the same way,although they generally have a long andheavy chain fixed to their hind legs to keepthem from wandering away too far. The next time you see some teak furniture,you will remember the big old elephants inthe forests of India and Burma, who do somuch to get the wood for it.
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FLOATING LOGS DOWN THERIVER A Boom — Grass Ropes — Rafts — Ironwood, Padauk,and Thabye — The Log That Was Not a Log After the teak and other kinds of logshave been taken to the river, they are brandedwith the owners name at the end, and leftto drift down the stream until they arestopped by a boom that is stretched acrossfrom one bank to the other. At the boom,the men sort the logs and make them intorafts. Then they are ready to go on fartherdown to the mills. To make a boom the men choose a placewhere on both sides of the river large rocksstand up high, like big posts. The boomis made of a number of stout cane vines. These canes are generally at least aninch thick, and often a good deal more; andthey grow to a height of two or three hun-dred feet, overhanging high rocks and simi-lar places. When this cane dries, it is quitehard and stiff; but after it has been soaked 76 Afoot and Afloat Through Burma in water, it can be bent enough to permit ofits being tied in knots where nec

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