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DEAN MAHOMET.
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the elephants, on their way to the watering places, unacquainted with the danger before them, fall into the pit contrived by theſe artful men who often riſque their lives in the execution of ſuch hazardous projects. The old animals, by ſome means, extricate themſelves, and eſcape to the Woods, but the young ones, who thus become an eaſy prey to their' purſuers, are ſuffered to remain in, this ſituation, for ſome days without food, till they are almoſt ſpent, and unable to make any reſiſtance: an eaſy deſcent is then opened into the pits or trenches, and collars thrown round their necks, after which they are mounted, and following a tame elephant as their leader, conducted with great facility to the next town
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