The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-14

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tie tree w. Nv the roots, aud Slnlnd,
falling liHudlOuH tu the ground, Judges
II llir -iinl course IA frliul death. Tie
elephant, disdnining Ia Wrvah w. ven
gCuncr upon u liiplcs4 enemy, picks
the old sailor up and quietly carries
him 10 the great burial place OF
the trlbO-a hill some miles
Ia circuit, surrounded by lmpenetra-
blc forests, aud thicbly covered with
the bones aud tusks Of generation after
generation of "thO brute which beats
between its eyes the serpent Of II
hand.n Sinbad, with commcndable
prudence continued to counterfeit
death until not an elephant was In
sight; and then, with an alacrity
equally commondable, loads raft
with picked tusks, makes lis way
with them to Bagdad, and so finds
himself once again rich man. Mod
ern researched has gone far
to rehabiitate the credit OF
| Sinbad the Sailor. we
know that the long narrative OF the
seven voyages is no idle fairy tale, but
that Il cmbOdies the genuine tradition
of old nayigators, such rs Harmon, ana
that its main facts are substantially
accurate. The Valley of Diamonds act
ually exists in Ceylon; the great rukh
once built its nest in Madagascar, and
nnpped its monstrous wings to and FRO,
between the island and the mainland;
and there Is good ground to believe
that the tale of the great burial place OF
the elephant race Is no mere fable, but
that high up in the table land of Cen
trail A frica, on the further side of Tan
panyika, in districts where the the
white mans foot has never
vet trod, ivory is to be found
as plentifully rs in the fossil beds
of Siberia, whence are dug up the large
mammoth tusks that furnish nine
tenths of the raw material operated
upon by our London ivory turner's.
Indeed, it would almost seem rs If the
pUpTpy OI l1lt LluLlDtt
at length found way to SihDad's
charmed hill. Within the last year
the importation has doubled itself.
Whence came all these tusks? Has
he Valhalia of Sinbad been actually
discovered, and do the chiefs whose
huts cluster around Tanganyika, and
under the shadow of the Mountain of
the Moon, know of n verticle Tom lid
dler's ground, where ivory can be
picked up, as in Siberia it can be dug
up by tie ton; or does each pair of
tlisks that finds its way to England re-
present n slaughtered elephant, and is
a war of determination being waged,
the ultimate effect of which must be
to render the huge brute as extinct rs
the dinoris itself The latter. we fear,
like the whale, is dying out. In India
he is becoming almost rs rare MS the
red deer in England. The hunters
have driven him further and further
in land unless something be done to
protect him, he will, before long, be-
come on the main continent at any
rate, altogether extinct, and Sanlb
will have to import his elephants from
Birmah and Ceylon, much as vein Eng.
land import our horses from Ireland,
and our foxes from any country that
will send them to us in sufficient num-
bers and sufficient size and strength.