We must enumerate the
elephant, three species of rhinoceros, and probably, according to Dr.
But where is the drinker of
elephant's blood--the red-eyed thorn?"
I am getting old, and I do not love wild
elephants. Give me brick
elephant lines, one stall to each
elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping.
Kala Nag-which means Black Snake-and Nazim were two of the biggest
elephants in the lines, and one of their duties was to administer the graver punishment, since no man can beat an
elephant properly.
It was easy work to follow the
elephants, for they had left a trail like a carriage road behind them, crushing down the thick bush in their furious flight as though it were tambouki grass.
Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further; to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the
elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
This drive, with an
elephant for the team, lasted about an hour and a half; yet the animal did not seem in the least fatigued.
For weeks Tarzan lived with his savage friends, hunting buffalo, antelope, and zebra for meat, and
elephant for ivory.
What the former knew was that he was happy in the companionship of the
elephant. He did not know why.
Toward the northwest Korak guided his huge mount, until they came out upon the river a mile or more above the Swede's camp, at a point where Korak knew that there was an
elephant ford.
The gentleman without the
elephant is worth five pound."
Closer came the sound that had attracted Tarzan's attention and now the others heard it--the shrill trumpeting of an
elephant. As La looked wide-eyed into Tarzan's face, there to read her fate for happiness or heartbreak, she saw an expression of concern shadow his features.