And altho here be both Bears and Tygers in these Woods, yet they are not so fierce, as commonly to assault people; Travellers and Way-faring men go more in fear of Elephants than of any other Beasts.
[Serve the King for Executing Malefactors.] The King makes use of them for Executioners; they will run their Teeth through the body, and then tear it in pieces, and throw it limb from limb.

They have sharp Iron with a socket with three edges, which they put on their Teeth at such times; for the Elephants that are kept have all the ends of their Teeth cut to make them grow the better, and they do grow out again.
[Their Diseases.] At some uncertain seasons the males have an infirmity comes on them, that they will be stark mad, so that none can rule them.

Many times it so comes to pass that they with their Keepers on their backs, run raging until they throw them down and kill them: but commonly there is notice of it before, by an Oyl that will run out of their cheeks, which when that appears, immediately they chain them fast to great Trees by the Legs.

For this infirmity they use no Medicine, neither is he sick: but the females are never subject to this.
[The Sport they make.] The Keepers of the Kings Elephants sometimes make a sport with them after this manner.

They will command an Elephant to take up water, which he does, and stands with it in his Trunk, till they command him to squirt it out at some body, which he immediately will do, it may be a whole paleful together, and with such a force, that a man can hardly stand against it.
[Ants of divers sorts.] There are Ants of several sorts, and some worthy our remark.
First of all, there are the Coumbias, a sort of small reddish Ants like ours in England.
Secondly, the Tale-Coumbias, as small as the former but blackish.