Elephant v. Camel.
Elephants have the bitterest enmity to camels. When the camel scents the elephant, it stop 3 still, trembles in all its limbs, and utteran interrupted cry of terror and affright. No persuasion, no blows, can induce it to rise ; it moves it? head backwards and forwards, and its whole frame is shaken witb mortal anguish. The elephant, on the contrary, as soon as he preceives. the camel, elevates his trunk, stamps with his feet, and wiih his trunk thrown backwards, snorting with a noise like the sound of a trumpet, hp rushes towards the camel, which with its neck outstretched, and utterly defenceless, a wait 3 with tho most patient resignation the approach of its enemy. The elephant, with its enormous shapele?s limbs, tramples on the unfortunate animal is such a manner that in n few minutes it is scattered around in small fragments.
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Manawatu Herald, 3 June 1899, Page 2
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147Elephant v. Camel. Manawatu Herald, 3 June 1899, Page 2
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