The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12


 adult All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O
 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java,
 but 1t Is made from pure grains, and and, the z
 most delicate stomach receives it without
 distress. IA the price of coffee. 15c and 25
 cts per package. Sold by all grocers.
 jungle on to tho next picket, in some
 cases only about five yards wide, in
 others thirty years to forty yards, &C.,
 cording to the nature of the country.
 It is a we'll known fact that wild ele-
 plants will not face, the open if they
 can possibly help it. At nighttime each picket lights fire, and when they hear the elephants moving toward them they make night hideous with yelling and
 rattles. I hope the elephants won't
 break through and come across our
 camp, or there will be nothing left of
 us; but don't fancy this will keep me
 awake tonight, as Pm awfully sleepy.
 Saturday, 6:15 a. 1n.,-I had good
 nights sleep, although I was awakened
 twice by the sounds close to my tent.
 The elephants must have been within
 one hundred yards of me. never knew
 before that elephants were purely noc-
 turnal animals; they always feed and
 travel by, night; this keeps the Sur
 round" men very much on the alert be-
 tween sunset and sunrise. am going to try to describe the ked- | dah and funnel to you, The first was disappointed in as regards size. I don't know why, but I expected something
 much larger. This one is only 50 feet in diameter. D. c. says it will hold 150
 elephants-it doesn't look to me as if it
 would hold 150 sheep; but he knows what he is talking about, and he doesn't expect to catch more than twenty-five in two days drive. It's enormously strongly built the upright posts being sung 8 feet into the ground, and out side supporting ones feet to 6 feet; all are trunks of trees cut in the jungle, and tied together witfl stout rope. The
 inside is thickly filled with bamboos stuck in the ground, to represent a jungle, which the herd ;tranple flat be- fore they have been inside three min utes. The funnel is stockaded in the same way for 250 yeards; the timbers are being dressed with bambooe, and the original jungle in the middle left standing. Wher it is thin, or has been trampled down, it is filled up artiici- ally. At the end of the 250 years fun mel they tie white cloths (about 3 feet wide) to the trees on either side for a further 300 yards, and the end of the | fununel in this case was about half a mile wide; this white cloth seems a small thing to keep wild elephants straight, but they tell me 1t is effective | while the herd is being quietly driven.
 330-Just had our tifnn. The drive | is over, and we only got thirteen and three britchas (youngsters). I got into my machan at 9:15 with Khalil and the | elephants were all in the keddah by l 1o:25, which D. C.. says is the quickest drive he has ever had. I was awfully | excited, and Khalil was speechless. The thing that struck mernost was the op- pressive silence before the drive started, l as, although I knew there were two 1 thousand men close, around me, could | not see or hear one. After waiting | about half an hour the row began, every man yelling his soul out, rattles | going and guns fired. At last we heard | crashing of jungle in the funnel just l below us and we saw a big tucker | forcing his way through. He went straight up and into the keddah, and ! then turned and came half down again, and met the rest of the herd, and they all stopped and seemed to be consider ing the situation.
 By this time the line of beaters was within fifty yards of them, and 1 thought they were going to charge the men but evidentlyf thsy couldn't face the noise and the fire, and some of the men firing at them with buckshot so they suddenly turned and rushed into the keddah, and I saw the gate fall. Then the gong sounded and all was over I don't think that I told you they light three lines of fire in the drive di- rectly the elephants and beaters have just outside the funnel, one just inside and the third just inside the stocktade part of the funnel. I stayed in the machan about five min utes after this as D. c. told me not to come down until he called me, but I saw him and ", one each side of the gate, on top of the keddah firing down nto it, so I got down to see what they were doing, and climbed up to the top of he gate, and had hardly got here when l big elephant charged straight at is. It lid give me a start. This found out vas what they were firing at, shooting N1tn NO. 4 SnOC at IIle lOT6H9du Ol any elephant that charged the gate. One grand old tusker did it five times, and lis forehead was streaming with blood rom the shot D. C., says it only makes lesh wounds The gate is the weakest part of the keddah till it is shored up rom outside with heavy timbers. D. C., lad to go down just now and kill one if the tuskers as it was fighting. It vas a great pity, as it was the second argest, standing about S1s feet The biggest is grand brute, standing 9 eet inches so D. C., says, but it looks 0 me much bigger.
 Sunday, 12th.---To-day has been q . cry interesting one, and I have been n top of the keddah all day except an our for tiffin, seeing the catch tied up. here are elephants trained especially pr this work, called koonlies (they are Il females, as tuskers would probably ght), and eleven of these, with their lahouts, were brought close up to the ate, and then a second gate was built ehind them in case of accidents Then