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"Africa produces elephants, but it is India that produces the
largest, as well as the dragon, who is perpetually at war with the
elephant, and is itself of so enormous a size, as easily to envelop the
elephants with its folds, and encircle them in its coils. The contest is
equally fatal to both; the elephant, vanquished falls to the earth, and
by its weight crushes the dragon which is entwined around it.*"
*Pliny's Natural History, Book viii.,
chap. xi, translated by J. Bostock and H.T. Riley; Bohn, London, 1885.
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