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Title: The Prince of Wales' tour: a diary in India; with some account of the visits of His Royal Highness to the courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain and Portugal
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, illus
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
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eeth, claws, and stomachs,they must have their rats and mice and other small deer.? Itwill be many a long year before Nepal ceases to keep up a breedof tigers ; and as we sit at dinner news comes that there aresome not very far off. Fehrua7y 22.—Close to the river, apart from his fellows andtended by a few chosen followers, lives a monster of force and,if one is to believe his eye, of cruelty. He is happily restrainedfrom mischief by great ropes secured round his legs and fastenedto the trunks of large teak-trees, but for all that he is fenced inand guarded sedulously. His head is painted blood-color, so ishis neck and the upper part of his body. Two small furrowsover his cheeks marked by unholy ichor trickling from his head, FIGHTING-ELEPHANTS. 433 show that, he is must. This is Jung Pershaud, the championelephant of the Nepalese woods. There are Bijli and otherfamous chiefs in camp, but none equal to him. They are keptto engage the males of the wild herds. The first day we entered
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CAMP-FIRE IN A BANYAN TOPE. NEPALESE BAND PLAYING. Nepal it was rumored that there was a herd not far distant, andlast night Sir Jung told the Prince that he had sent out his fight-ing-elephants, and hoped to let him see the sport. Orders weregiven for every one to be ready next morning at 7 a. m.19 28 434 THE PRINCE OF WALES TOUR. The party, led by Sir Jung, started accordingly, and wentfull speed through woods and swamps, across ravines and rivers,up and down nullah-sides, over old moraines, crashing throughbrake and copse with the tumult of a hurricane. The trainedpads are urged by the mahout, and by a man who hangs on bya strap behind and belabors them with a wooden mallet, and goshuffling along at the rate of eight miles an hour. The wild,unencumbered with mahouts and mallet-men, are faster than thedomesticated a^jimals. Excited spies came galloping down thehillside to report that the fighting-elephants could not come upwith the fugitive. After two hours full cry—and no one can

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