Identifier: wondersoftropics00nort (find matches)
Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nd never rest till it was rolling on smoothly again. Then he would return to his own proper place and duty in the line again. One morning, in the press of wagons and animals, one of the elephants was hurt by the heavy wheel of a cart running over his foot. I happened to be near, and bound it up with a towel dipped in camphorated brandy, and tightened the bandage as well as I could, and off he limped to his stable. In the afternoon I went to see how he was getting on. He was lying on a bed of straw; he recognized me at once, and held out his wounded foot for me to see. I renewed the bandage each day; and after that the grateful animal never passed my tent without a peculiar cry which he used for that occasion alone, and when he met me he always gently rub-bed my back or shoulders with his trunk, uttering little sniffs of pleasure. Major Skinner, of the English Army, vouches for the following story, which shows on the part of the elephant intelligence, memory, comparison, judgment, and good-nature.
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(149) 150 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Riding along a very narrow trail near Kandy, in Ceylon, where he hap-pened to be stationed, he heard the heavy tread of an approaching elephant, uttering discontented grunts which frightened his rather ner-vous horse, and made him rear and plunge. He says: I soon saw whence these sounds proceeded. A tame elephant had undertaken the difficult task of transporting a long girder, resting on his tusks, over the narrow road. Between the trees on either side there was not room for this to pass, and he could only advance by turning his head from side to side and avoiding each tree as he went. It was a slow business, and no wonder he complained; but on seeing how his trumpet-ings frightened my horse, he ceased instantly, threw down his load, and pressed his huge body close up against the trees on one side of the road to allow us to pass. My horse trembled all over, and refused to move, seeing which, the elephant drew still farther back and tried to en-courage the cowa

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