Hathi

We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak. Elephints a-pilin' teak

the Hathi is a wily animal , and will face fire and steel rather than what he suspects to be a trap

Here were we, jampacked on a narrow track down which the hathi was certain to come if he came at all , not a fire - iron of any sort among the lot of us, to all appearances not a vestige of an escape on either side