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upon mie fer some time, one of the largest of them put his trunk round
the root of the tree, and pulled so strong that he plucked it up and
threw it on the ground; I fell with the tree, and the elephant taking
me up with his trunk, laid me on his back, where I sat more like
one dead than alive, with my quiver on my shoulder: then he put
himself at the head of the rest, who followed him in troops, and
carried. me to a place where he laid me down on the ground, and

 

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retired with all his companions. Conceive, if you can, the condition
I was in: I thought myself to be in a dream; at last, after having
lain some time, and seeing the elephants gone, I got up, and found
I was upon a long and broad hill, covered all over with the bones
_and teeth of elephants. I confess to you that this furnished me with
abundance of reflections. I admired the instinct of those animals ;