New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03

They are so terribly fierce looking. They look
even worse than the Indians that captured
Harold do look at THAI with the Chinese eyes.
elit nose, and his face. Did you see
q more repIlsive face in your ufe~'
No, never saw worse one, neither do
O better looking one IN the crowd: some have one
eye gone others bloated faces so red and swollen
that the eyes can scarcely be seen, while others
are all marked by smallpox, and many have no
ears What terrible fights they must have among
themselves" sa{d Harold.
As the Tartar mob drew near. they began to pelt
the elephant Win spears. Harold made it below
and trumpet, I'D start a dead run I'D the val
ley in the dir sticn from which the savages had
come, acting s + It had been wounded. The
faster the eleT. an: went however the faster came
the tribe Of sTvae es behind 1t: It kept on until
81 struck the yia leading their fortress in the
mountains away up among the peaks and table,
-. The , path was Est wide enough for two 70 walk
the elephants De scraped against the rocky wall
have hurled them over the precipitous side into
the valley beneath. and that would have been the
elephant. But no such thing happened. and they
Went on ana on slowly going higher and higher
they had seen the TartaTs stand and the land
stopped when they reached this point to take a
look at the Tartars away beneath them. who had
the elephant They looked like a colored rope as
they wound in and out and around the peaks in
Beneath on one side lay the peaceful valley with
the nouatah range IKE HUGE s s wos9
head had disappeared in the distance. with snow
white humps its back where the peaks were
covered with snow. To the left lay a wide expense
OF level plateau surrounded by Snow capped peaks
and this plateau at frequent intervals could
be seen smoke arising from low stone adobe
See lone, there is where the Tartars live and
am going straight into their camp" said Harold
= This ne did, arousng fifty or sixty large fero-
ciOus dogs that looked like wolves. They barl1ed
and howled, and soon had an the women and chill
cren that the huts out TO see what the
cOmmotion was about The elephant seemed per-
gar TO eat grass This II was stiH doing when the
am, so S az tb 9 9nsS l,eFie eq LIit 9 me
peared into their separate huts and presently came
N the other long wooden pegs Wh Re they a pTo a
ceeded 20 drive into the ground and fastsn to the
no hOr. said Harold They are going to try to
want 20 move IN show them how like threads OF
cotton their ropes are "
groan." and. looking out, they saw strapped to a
eoth ears cut on close TO his head while o1 eitb
side OF his face was driven a spike, 50 that II he
spikes would run into his checks.
"Ny heavens" exclaimed Harold. that sight is
nrrlaf or re and i shall show q nj ~
IN lii every man OF The tribe can get hold OIL
just then several men came out o. me huts and
40 fferirg him drink OF clear. cool spring water
sa itb a. lenng thirst Tits was the last straw
on the cameis back. and with one strong pull
-rbsch brought W pegs and all Harold loose
end upon lie men before they knew Il. He twisted
the elephants trunk around me nrst man ana
five others he killed by electric SHOCKS; men ne
tic trap6oor freed the prisoner and took him kto
. the elephant. -,
The poor czrfiye must have thought his
suererIngs had turned him crazy when he saw two
kind human faces boxing az him from ne see 9s
the elephant. lone attended 20 his wounds while
Harold went killing Tartars as II they were
rats After he had killed all IN sight he went Tor
those that had taken refuge IN their huts lie
simply turned the elephant into a battery senclng
the mud and stones flying in every direction.
When the camp demolished and every man
killed he left the and children and started
Gown the mountain side. The poor they had
picked up had received 50 many Injuries that he
died before they reached the valley, with the
>ood care they gave him and before he could tell