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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

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 of ill-temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

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 tame elephants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

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 in the keddah is frenzied and dangerous, but after a week or two is learning tricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders] Reference

All who have witnessed the tying of captives in a keddah wherein a whole wild herd has been entrapped, testify to the uncanny human - like quality of the intelligence displayed by the tame elephants who assist in tying, leading out and subjugating the wild captives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

The most sensible carriage-horse is liable to step on his master's foot or crowd him against a wall in a moment of excitement; but even inside the keddah, with wild elephants all about, and a captive elephant hemmed in by three or four tame animals, the noosers safely work under the bodies and between the feet of the tame elephant until the feet of the captive are tied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

The "keddah" in Bengal described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference