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THE WORK OF THE ELEPHANT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 19cm, 1012.

Probably no business in the world is more absolutely deperidient on the services of an animal than is the teak industry on those of the elephant. In Java, it is truc, the timber being smaller and the conditions different, hand labour and implements are employed, and in parts even of Burma and Siam the country is sufficiently flat to permit of carting by buffaloes being used as a method of ex- traction. But these parts are compara- tively few and far between, and the obstacles in the way of introducing heavy plant into a country deficient in good roads, bridges, or facilities for transport must be at once apparent. Even without these obstacles it is very doubtful whether teak, being so scattered as it is, could over be profitably worked up and down steep hill-sides by machinery, while it is a certain as anything can be that no machinery could ever be devised to per- for the part played by elephants in the water. Apart from the enormous bodily strength which enables it to drag, an elephant can with its forehead, trunk, or tusks push and roll enormous logs about As if they were playthings, nor does it mind working in water aft and evou more in depth.

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The Asiatic elephant, which belongs. to an entirely different species from the African, and resembles the latter hardly more closely than the buffalo does the ox, is, like the teaktree, confined mainly to India, Further India, and the Malay Peninsula. Wild herds are still found in Burma and Sjan, where they are care- fully protected, a special liconee being required to shoot them in the former country, and the law forbidding their. destruction except in cases of necessity, or for self-defence, in the latter. Every few years the Siamese Government holds keddal." operations or catehes at Ayuthia, and by their agency the domesti- cated are recruited from the free herds.

That apart from its work the conditions under which the elephant is to live in WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. resemble those of its wild state

captivity should as closely as possible will. naturally be the owner's first care. It is a purely herbivorous animal and thrives well on the ordinary jungle plants and creepers, the juicy 'kaing grass being among its favourite foods. In Siam

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it is hardly ever stall-fed 18. it is in India; in the neighbourhood of town or village, when it has to be tied

up, food must of course |be brought to it. But as a general rule. the animal is simply turned out into the jungle to find its food for itself, the fore- feet being hobbled to prevent its straying too far. Among its primary requisites ere shade and abundance of water. Güve these and good grazing, an elephant has a fair chance of keeping its condition. throughout the seven months which con stitute its working season.

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The latter begins, as already stated, in June. From that time onward the animal's daily and weekly routine is something as follows:-Directly it is day- light the rider leaves his camp, goes out to track his charge, which, despite his hobbled condition, will often succeed in straying a distance of some miles, bathes him all over in the creek--this is one of the most important of a mahout's duties and brings him to the scene of the day's work. Operations commence at 7 a.m. or a little before and go on till 11, by which hour the power of the sun generally renders it imprudent to con tinue further. For it must be remembered that the elephant is naturally a nocturnal animal, and extremely liable to sunstroke, On the completion of their day's work the animals are brought to the divested of their gear, hobbled, and turned out into the jungle. Towards evening the riders pay them another visit to make sure that their charges have not slipped their hobbles, as they occasionally manage to do, or heen walked off by a gang of the thieves who till lately infest- ed some parts of Siam and even now

needless to say great care is taken of the calves. From the age of four to six are not unknown. The elephants are in. spected by the foreman in charge of the they are usually placed with a native Cathed, and left to browse in peace

trainer, who accustoms them to dragging small logs or carrying light loads. The days work they receive two days com animal is, as a rule, kept for transport plete rest, or three days if the spell has purposes till between its 15th and 20th been an arduous one. In January, or

year, by which time it is beginning early February, they are removed to ever- attain something like its full growth and green forests, where they will, even dur-strength. From this time onward, should ing the ensuing hot months, be able to

it be docile and tractable, it will become Elephants vary of find aboundant food and water, and a regular worker. being called upon to do no work what course in their dispositions as much as any other race of animale; some seem ever soon become fat and ready for a

to be incurably savage and vicious. Such now season's labours.

cases are, however, exceptional, and are probably due as a rale more to mistakes

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carved out of lava from an extinct crater eight miles away. Most of these images have been thrown down, but there are 555 of them in the forty-five square miles of the island. The figures extend down to the hips, and the faces represent a receding forehead, a broad adze-like nose, thin lips, and a powerful chin. One of the smaller statues of Eastern Island-8ft. high-is now in the British Museum, having been brought back by H.M.S. Topaze, which visited the island in 1888. No metal is found in the island and the only ancient tool found is a stone chisel, with which it would have been impos sible to execute such colossal works. To drag the statues from the crater work- shop over hill and dale to the platforms must have required a far larger popula- tion than this island (with very seanty supplies of fresh water) could support. Some of the colossi weigh 250 tons, and plicances to move some of them. it would need modern. engineering ap-

treatment than to innate tendencies. Should it succeed in evading the numerous causes of death to which it is liable an slephant will be able to work up to its 50th or 60th year, after which The it gradually begins to decline, natural term of its life cannot be exactly determined.--The Times.

EASTER ISLAND MYSTERY.

BRITISH EXPEDITION TO TAK BOUTHERN SR18.

There is ample evidence that the making of these huge images was suddenly stopper, and the theory has been ad- vanced that the island is the last Face of a submerged continent which occupied the greater part of the South Pacific, and possibly joined Asia with !America. Ruined temples of the same style are found on the mainland of America, in Indo-China, and Java. Under the platforms are vast numbers

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safely increased. For if the elephant is the most powerfal animal in the world, 'PRANA'

it is also one of the most delicate. Not only is it terribly liable to surra and the world, is to be visited by a British Easter Island, one of the wonders of SPARKLET SYPHON all the cattle of the country, but hear expedition headed by Mr. W. Scoresby sumed, they were the victims of humus

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Museum, and a navigating officer whole mystery of the Incas of Peru. on their stuently increasing value, ty at the beginning of August. The object and consequently value, of elephants is indeed already a matter of investigation of the meaning and origin the expedition, says The Star, is an grave concern to all interested in the teak of the gigantic prehistoric remains on business. Whereas 13 or 15 years ago a the island which is the most eastern of good "tusker

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