To take Jumbo’s place, Mr. Barnum has purchased Alice, the large African elephant of the London Zoölogical Garden, who, according to Tegetmier, “is not of an amiable temper.” Alice is an African elephant, perfect with the exception of the tip end of her trunk, which was torn off some years ago. She is about the age of the late Jumbo, and will also find a resting-place, when her term has run, in some of the American institutions of science. CHAPTER VII. HOW ASIATIC ELEPHANTS ARE CAPTURED ALIVE. Though the tusks of the Asiatic elephant are not large and valuable enough to make its capture for that purpose profitable, the live animal itself is greatly esteemed as a beast of burden, and as a show-animal in the pageants of the native princes, every petty court or rich man considering it necessary to his dignity to possess a number of the huge animals. To supply this demand, professional hunters are in the field during every season, using several different methods to entrap the great game. If the plan is to capture a large number of elephants at a time, kheddahs, or enclosures, are built; this method being the one now in use by the Government Hunting-Establishment in Bengal. To make it successful, about four hundred natives are required; and their duties are so different and varied, that a page from the pay-roll, and list of duties from the books of Mr. G. P. Sanderson, officer in charge of the Government Elephant-Catching Establishment in Mysore, are appended:— No. Detail. Rate of pay Remarks. per mensem. _Rs._ } To collect establishment, and conduct 1 Jemadar 25 } operations. 1 Interpreter 10 To Hill-men. 1 Writer 9 1 Head tracker 9 } To go ahead and learn the position of 2 Mate trackers 7½ } herd, and send word to hunters. 15 Trackers 7 } 20 Head coolies 9 } To surround and guard herd, construct 20 Mate coolies 7½ } enclosure, and drive elephants 280 Coolies 7 } in. } To keep a check on a circle of coolies, 1 Havildar 9 } by going around at short intervals; 1 Naik 7½ } also to mount guard at the department’s 14 Sepoys 7 } camp. These men are furnished } with guns. 1 Head nooser 9 } To bind the wild elephants when 4 Noosers 7 } impounded in the enclosure. } These men are furnished with guns, 1 Head pulwán 9 } and take post at any point where 4 Pulwáns 7 } the elephants show a determination } to face the cordon of coolies.