![]() Kala Naag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders. ![]() There was one whole department which did nothing else but used to hunt them, catch them, break them in and send them up and down the country as they were needed for work. He was also trained with several elephants to catch wild elephants.Įlephants were very strictly preserved by Indian Government. He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Musjid. He had seen Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala. He was sent a ship and taken for days across the water, and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India. He used to carry tents weighing twelve hundred pounds on the march in Upper India. So, before he was twenty-five, he gave up being afraid, and so he was the best loved and the best looked-after elephant in the service of the Government of India. His mother always had taught him that the elephants, who are afraid, are always caught and die early. ![]() ![]() ![]() Radha Pyari was his mother who had been caught in the same drive with Kala Naag. The big elephant was caught when he was fully twenty years old which meant that his actual age was nearly seventy-a ripe age for an elephant. Kala Naag, which means Black Snake, had been serving the Indian Government for the last forty-seven years. ![]()
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