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having found that I could use the bow and arrow with some
skill, took me behind him upon an elephant, and carried me to
‘a vast forest in the country. My master desired me to climb
an exceedingly high trec, and wait there until I saw a troop of
elephants pass by ; I was then to shoot at them, and if one of
thera fell, I was to go to the city and give the merchant notice.
Haring given me these directions, and a bag of provisions, he
left me. On the morning of the second day, I saw a great
number of elephants; I succeeded in shooting one of them,
upon which the others went away, and I returned to the city
and told my employer; he commended my diligence, and
caressed me. We went back to the forest and dug a hole, in
which the elephant was to remain until it decayed and left the
teeth. I continued this trade nearly two months, and killed
an clephant almost every day. One morning all the elephants
came up to the tree in which I was; they howled dreadfully.
One of them fastened his trunk round
the tree and tore it up by the roots. 45:
I fell with the tree; the animal took ~
ame up with his trunk, and placed
me on his back; and then, at the
head of his troop, he brought me to a
place where he gently laid me on the
ground, and they all went away. I
discovered that I was upon a large
broad hill, covered all over with the
bones and teeth of elephants; and
‘was soon convinced that this was their burying-place. I reached
the city once more ; my master thought I was Jost, for he had
seen the torn up tree, and found my bow and arrows. I told
him what had happened, and conducted him to the hill. We
loaded the clephant on which we had come—and thus collected