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SCENES IN INDIA.
upwards of twenty in number, had made a full meal.
By this time a shrill sound was heard from one of
the elephants, which was readily understood, when
those that were still in the building immediately
rushed out and joined their companions. One of the
first division, after retiring from the granary, had acted
as sentinel while the rest were enjoying the fruits of
their sagacity and perseverance. He had so stationed
himself as to be enabled to observe the advance of an
enemy from any quarter, and, upon perceiving the
troops as they returned from the village, he sounded
the signal of retreat, when the whole herd, flourishing
their trunks, moved rapidly into the jungle.
Information had been conveyed to the officer com-
manding the guard, before he reached the village, that
the elephants had attacked the granary; he arrived
however too late with his detachment to save it. Upon
entering, he found that the plunderers had devoured
and destroyed the greater part of what it contained.
A ball from a small field-piece was discharged at them
in their retreat; but they only wagged their tails,
as if in mockery, and soon disappeared in the recesses
of their native forests.
A large painting of the subject of the dead elephant, (see page
81,) has been made by Mr. William Daniell for Colonel le Baron
de Noual de la Loyrie, a very liberal patron of art.
SCENES IN INDIA.
upwards of twenty in number, had made a full meal.
By this time a shrill sound was heard from one of
the elephants, which was readily understood, when
those that were still in the building immediately
rushed out and joined their companions. One of the
first division, after retiring from the granary, had acted
as sentinel while the rest were enjoying the fruits of
their sagacity and perseverance. He had so stationed
himself as to be enabled to observe the advance of an
enemy from any quarter, and, upon perceiving the
troops as they returned from the village, he sounded
the signal of retreat, when the whole herd, flourishing
their trunks, moved rapidly into the jungle.
Information had been conveyed to the officer com-
manding the guard, before he reached the village, that
the elephants had attacked the granary; he arrived
however too late with his detachment to save it. Upon
entering, he found that the plunderers had devoured
and destroyed the greater part of what it contained.
A ball from a small field-piece was discharged at them
in their retreat; but they only wagged their tails,
as if in mockery, and soon disappeared in the recesses
of their native forests.
A large painting of the subject of the dead elephant, (see page
81,) has been made by Mr. William Daniell for Colonel le Baron
de Noual de la Loyrie, a very liberal patron of art.