Identifier: junglebookkipl (find matches)
Title: The jungle book
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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being afraid, and so he was the best-loved andthe best-looked-after elephant in the service ofthe Government of India. He had carried tents,twelve hundred pounds weight of tents, on themarch in Upper India: he had been hoisted intoa ship at the end of a steam-crane and taken fordays across the water, and made to carry a mor-tar on his back in a strange and rocky countryvery far from India, and had seen the EmperorTheodore lying dead in Magdala, and had comeback again in the steamer entitled, so the soldierssaid, to the Abyssinian war medal. He had seenhis fellow-elephants die of cold and epilepsy andstarvation and sunstroke up at a place called AliMusjid, ten years later; and afterward he hadbeen sent down thousands of miles south to hauland pile big baulks of teak in the timber-yards atMoulmein. There he had half killed an insub-ordinate young elephant who was shirking hisfair share of the work. After that he was taken off timber-hauling,and employed, with a few score other elephants
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TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS 221 who were trained to the business, in helping tocatch wild elephants among the Garo hills. Ele-phants are very strictly preserved by the IndianGovernment. There is one whole departmentwhich does nothing else but hunt them, andcatch them, and break them in, and send themup and down the country as they are neededfor work. Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders,and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet,and bound round the ends, to prevent them split-ting, with bands of copper; but he could domore with those stumps than any untrained ele-phant could do with the real sharpened ones. When, after weeks and weeks of cautious driv-ing of scattered elephants across the hills, theforty or fifty wild monsters were driven into thelast stockade, and the big drop-gate, made oftree-trunks lashed together, jarred down behindthem, Kala Nag, at the word of command, wouldgo into that flaring, trumpeting pandemonium(generally at night, when the flicker of thetorch

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