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or village. When a conſiderable number of them, is collected in this manner, they are regularly trained by the hotteewallies, for the uſe of the Nabobs and other great men; and when rendered by age unfit for their amuſements, they ſerve to carry the equipage of camps and other burdens. Under the management of their tutors, they are taught to do any thing, and, in a ſhort time, become as tractable as the horſes of the molt famous riders in Europe.
It is related of one of them, that when the child of it's keeper, lay ſome time in a cradle, crying for want of nouriſment, in the abſence of the parents, this huge
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