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elephant trap

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  • Sanderson once had a narrow escape from death while on the back of a tame elephant inside a keddah, attempting to secure a wild female.
  • Sanderson in the keddah was of the most murderous description, he states that her conduct after her defeat was most exemplary, and she never afterward showed any signs...
  • There takes place in the keddah, or pen of capture, a mighty struggle between the giant strength of the captive and the ingenuity of man, ably seconded by a few powerful...
  • Now that both Turks and Syrians had grown used to being prisoners and to obeying us, they were less likely to think independently -- in the same way that a new-caught elephant...
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