The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-12
! THn VIVID BEASTS' FIGHT.
The PrInte Of Wales Entertainment 1t
BarOda.

BarOda.
THE ARENA Al BARoDA--THE ELEPHANTS
| HAVE NO STOMACH FOR THE FRAY
RHINOCEROsEs DO NO BETTER BUFFALO
! SAVE THE DAY.
Indian Correspondence Of the London News.l
The chains are loosed from the legs
OF the two "flghting elephants and
these slowly advance TO meet each
other, goaded by men with javelins, en-
ticed by picadors dangling red scarfs
before each. Some Of the latter appear
recklessly bold, and run, or seem to run,
narrow escapes, as the huge beast, with
raised trunk, comes charging at then.
Now the two elephants closely confront
each other, ard their tusks clash
together with d mighty bickcr. Their
trunks intcrlace into u twisted knot,
their loins strain as they push against
each other for the mastery, their TANKS
hesve and d. t ,bot Muscles hsl w stsa
tells at first. and the bigger, lighter col
ored brute bears back the less massive,
! darkcr-hued elephant, but the smaller
Que has greater gameness, and con
stantly confronts his weightier antago-
MIST. The latter ignobly cuts 1t, and,
turning his pachydermatous back
round, seems In supine, languid fash-
ion to bid his opponent take his
change out Of that" The combat now
degenerates into farce; the smaller
animals keep butting fitfully into the
great rump Of the other, who sluggishly
declines the fray and sustains phlegmat-
ically good deal Of punching against
the barricade and walls from the blunt
tusksvf the animal which, for form s
sake, must, / suppose, be called his an
| tagonist. It is obvious that the fight Is
q sham, and so the fuse bearers nd
vance and flare up. The elephants
clearly understand and act with hlac-
rity on this signal that they need sham
to fight no moro. The big fellow stands
| first among the smoke, for he is al
ready ut his own end of the arena; the
! smaller chap scuttlos Off In ludicrously
clumsy haste to his own corner. Again,
however. they are induced to renew the
semblage Of struggle, and there is
some aimless butting with foreheads,
clashing of tusks, and INTERVIEWING OF
trunks. But 1t is so evident that the
brutes understand each other that, 10
the language of the prize ring, the fight
IL "cross," that the farce grows tedi-
Gus, and Is ended by the attachment
first Of clamps and then OF ropes round
the hind legs Of the lazy combatants,
the blazing and smoke OF the fuses, and
the final tying up of the unscathed inn
posters. ~
NEW ELEPHANT APrEAns.
These removed, u third elephant, u
huge dtin-hidcd rogue, 10 brought IN at
one portal, while through the other
there caracoles gayly q smart horseman.
on u handsome gray horse, powerfully
bitted, and we'll backed on his launches.
The horseman rides very short, and his
style Of equitation reminds one forcibly
Of the French md,,ege, although his seat
Is freer and suppler than obtains there.
He, circling and caperiDg, approaches
the elephant, which, after facing him
for time, makes sudden rush, and
his trunk Is on the horses Group, and
all but clutches the rider, before the
speed of the Arab tells and carries
horse and man out OF reach. Quick
as lightning the horscman Is round
again, capering teasingly around the
elephant, whose rlshes In quick sue
cessior, and what certainly seems sue
cession Of hairbreadth escapes on the
part Of the rider, keep on the strain the
interest Of the spectators. The courage
Of both rider and horse are undeniable;
IA TO hand and seat, and the latter obeys
with beautiful alacrity OF dexterity the
slightest hint from wrist or leg. Over
and over again the riders life seems not
worth seconds purchase, us the cle-
plants trunk brushes his shoulder, but
supple dcxteIity pulls him through, and
the foiled elephant at length lapses into
sullen apathy
THE RHlNoCERosEs REFUSE TO FIGHT.
Way there for the rhinosceros, his
thick hide lying on his back in flaccid
folds---that hide Of which it Is written
that the sword Of him that layeth at
1t cannot hold the spear, the dart, nor
the habergeon." The patriarch asks
%Ca y It, thou , bind, bind the unicorn with This his
thou put an hook into his nose or
bore his Jaws through with u thorn q
A modern Job visiting Baroda could
scarcely venture to ask these questions
as illustrations Of impossibilities, for
the rhinoceros, as we see him brought
into the arena here, has great bit into
the mouth Of him, and massive chains
round his throat and legs. The huge ugly
monster comes forward bobbling and as
he comes he routs along the ground
with that vicious, solitary horn on his
snout.. Another rhinocero5 follows,
scarcely so big, but rather uglier,
moving with u curious high action, and
routing with q longer horn. The two
are loosened, save for the chain hobbies
on their fore legs, and they sluggishly
approach each other, and begin to but
and bore at each other with their horns.
There Is much fierce granting and great
straning, Neither has much stomach
for the fray, and the short struggle ends
in the incontinent and cowardly boiling
Of the larger, shorterhorned brute,
with clumsy bounds and frisks, OBJ
vious funk" and profuse gruntings.
A second timelthe two are brought to
the scratch; second time does the inn
poster shun the prolongation Of the
duel. Water is thrown on the thick
hides OF the brutes, apparently to en-
courage them to fight, but with the gro
tesque result that both clumsily but
preoipitately bolt In opposite directions
The "pigs" won't fight, and no amount
Of jobbing with spears will make them
take kindly to the fray. After much
grotesque foundering all about the
arena they are ordered off in disgrace.
THE -BUFFALoEs STRUGGLE FIERcELY.
Buffaloes succeed behemoth genuine
wild buffaloes Of the swampy Jungle
brutes that among their bulrushes will
fcarlessly face the tiger himself. One
is black and sleek, the other dun and
rough. Thore Is no question about their
aIdor for the battle; with straining
sinew they rush to the encounter. At the
first crash the dun loses horn, close to
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