Chapter IV
Breaking the Wild Elephant
With the capture of the great herd, the real work of Sahib Anderson and his native helpers had just begun. Capturing the elephants had been hard and dangerous work, costing them two lives and six wounded men, but the breaking would take months. While it might not be so dangerous as the capture, yet it was full of thrills.
This will be realized when we consider the great size of these elephants and that they were furious at being taken in this way.
The very first thing that the Sahib and his men did was to cut some holes in the bamboo between the posts and coax out
