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The Arabian nights' entertainments (1916)

Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, ill · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 162

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nota day passed in which I did not kill an elephant. One morning,when I was waiting for some elephants to pass, I perceived, tomy great astonishment, that instead of traversing the forest asusual, they stopped and came toward me with a terrible noise,and in such numbers that the ground trembled… … THE LARGEST ELEPHANT TWISTED HIS TRUNK ROUND THE TREE AND TORE IT UP BY THE ROOTS ARABIAN NIGHTS motionless, and was so unnerved that m} bow and arrows fellfrom my hands. My terror was not groundless. After the elephants hadviewed me for some time, one of the largest twisted his trunkround the body…

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