He was ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, according to custom, he would take his father's place on Kala Nag's neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the
elephant goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather.
Deesa handed Chihun the heavy ankus -the iron
elephant goad.
Hardly had we done so, when from the pool, about a hundred yards off, we heard the strident trumpeting of an
elephant. "/Unkungunklovo/!
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.
What the former knew was that he was happy in the companionship of the
elephant. He did not know why.
At times Korak was forced to abandon the broad head and take to the trees above, so close the branches raked the back of the
elephant; but at last they came to the edge of the clearing where lay the camp of the renegade Swede, nor even then did they hesitate or halt.
And now Tarzan saw that only a miracle could save Busuli, and with the same unconcern with which he had once hunted this very man he hurled himself into the path of the
elephant to save the black warrior's life.
The gentleman without the
elephant is worth five pound."
The king's letter was written in blue characters upon a rare and precious skin of yellowish colour, and these were the words of it: "The King of the Indies, before whom walk a thousand
elephants, who lives in a palace, of which the roof blazes with a hundred thousand rubies, and whose treasure house contains twenty thousand diamond crowns, to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid sends greeting.
La knew only too well the insane ferocity of a bull
elephant in MUST.
We must enumerate the
elephant, three species of rhinoceros, and probably, according to Dr.