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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1890, 23 April 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

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"I „- :.t e.f^t a !, ria v : ; t d pV. "^ an 3 Tiii.e ui> v ih tt 'j v i.boi:s • p.m. Alur stsiiiinj* I fOiH chiMCO i\: the 0r.3 wmc-n Eeecirj.i ftboui toe highest 01 the ht.rd. ar.d chvpp-.d il at the fir ii abut. Is Inracd ous to bj * b:^ o^w clip'jant. About tv/o hoi' -9 aft.-ivr'-^rd I had the tail and feet cut oil smj;S tiltun to the bati h -lnw. N=xt morning I went to the rpj'i to 100k at ttie cU pliant and fouad her, or what re caiued of hts", non e*t. Afcer looking aiouncl, I saw the heidna4 been around during ihs night, and I soon discovered a track where They foeuitd to have iciheJ in a body. I followed this Lhrou(|h a thiolc bamboo jungle, &cd &botu £00 yarila lujlher on, I caoie on the b^dy oi tha dead tlephint laying en the bottom of a rocky stream. Judging from appe&rBr.ses, the body of ths eiepasnfc had tyssn c&rried to tho top of tba bank, and trora theie rolled into the Ptreaa. From ihg tracks, it was piuin that St 3 body had not been rolled, but carried to ths bank, &nd it waa plain that it hid bsen r jllfad through the mansgrase, which growj on tb.3 side o£ the stream. The jangle througa which tne budy waa br.;Ujhs to She atrea-a was very heavy, with bamboos growing close, and tna track whioh tho eif-pbant mado was BdV£rai yards wide. S >me turpride was expressed at tha circumstances by my noighbors till I Bhowed them where the thphant had been shot and whiTeits tail and feet had been oat r,£f, and v. re the body lay in the stream, which proved conclu>ively that by some means 01 othsr the body had got 07er tee interTiniKg spaoa in ths nigiJ."

h ia citliualt to understand how elephana with thtir trunks and fe-J; ojuld raise and 3upport the dead body cf a commie. HowBTcr, thßy seemed to have managed it.