Howdah

There is a howdah on the horse and a saddle on the elephant.

They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.

I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.

I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.