Storia do Mogor 263.1.1

263.1.1

As I have promised to speak about elephants, I will give a brief account of them, but it will not be what some of the ancients wrote. What I am to relate is founded on true information obtained from various hunters of these animals, and also from what I have seen. I shall speak of their manner of engendering, their birth, and the means by which they are captured in various places ; how to domesticate them with ease, and other matters. All the grandees in the Mogul country are desirous of owning them, simply to be able to say that they are lords of such-and-such a number of elephants.