He had been browsing as he went.

His nap had brought a return of appetite; and the wait-a-bit thorns showed the marks of his prehensile trunk.

Here and there branches were broken off, stripped clean of their leaves, and the ligneous parts left upon the ground.

In several places whole trees were torn up by their roots, and those, too, of considerable size.

This the elephant sometimes does to get at their foliage, which upon such trees grows beyond the reach of his proboscis.