Now, curiously enough, as soon as the rice and coracan are removed and the fences are broken, the elephants walk into the fields and regularly glean them. From Wordnik.com. [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference
Thus a single watcher is able to keep them off the rice and coracan lands; and in some places, where these intervene between their haunts and the tanks where they are accustomed to drink, passages are made, lined by bamboo fences, and they pass up and down them without attempting to break into the fields, though full of their favourite food. From Wordnik.com. [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference
Close to the edge of this the cultivated land of the village extended, and people were stationed in watch-houses erected up among the branches of the trees, shrieking and yelling, and beating drums, and making every conceivable noise to drive back into the jungle the elephants who were accustomed to take their morning repast off their fields of coracan, and maize or millet. From Wordnik.com. [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference
French: petit mil, eleusine cultivee, coracan, koracan. From Wordnik.com. [2. Finger Millet] Reference
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