the major and three others rode up to these stupendous animals.'

The sheikh's people began screeching violently; and although the beasts at first appeared to treat the approach of the cavalcade with great contempt; yet, after a little, they moved off, erecting their ears, which had till then hung flat on their shoulders, giving a roar that shook the ground under the horsemen.

One (says the major) was an immense fellow, I should suppose sixteen feet high; the other two were females, and moved away rather quickly, while the male kept in the rear, as if to guard their retreat. We wheeled swiftly round him; and Maramy (a guide sent by the sheikh), casting a spear at him, which struck him just under the tail, and seemed to give him about as much pain as when we prick our finger with a pin, the huge beast threw up his proboscis in the air with a loud roar, and from it cast such a volume of sand, that, unprepared as I was for such an event, nearly blinded me. The elephant rarely, if ever, attacks; and it is only when irritated that he is dangerous; but he will sometimes rush upon a man and horse, after choking them with dust, and destroy them in an instant.

Cut off from his companions, the elephant took the direction leading to where the mule and the footmen had been left. They quickly fled in all directions; and the man who rode the mule, which was not inclined to increase its pace, was so alarmed that he did not get the better of the fright for the whole day. The major and his companions pressed the elephant very close, riding before, behind, and on each side of him; and his look sometimes, as he turned his head, had the effect of checking instantly the speed of the major's horse. His pace never exceeded a clumsy rolling walk, but was sufficient to keep the horses at a short gallop. Major Denham fired a ball from each barrel of his gun at the beast, and the second, which struck his ear, seemed to give him a moment's uneasiness only. The first, which struck him on the body, failed in making the least impression; and,

after giving him another spear, which flew harmless off his tough hide, he was left to pursue his way.

Eight elephants were soon afterwards reported as being at no great distance, and coming towards the party; and they all mounted for the purpose of chasing away the beasts, which appeared to be unwilling to go, and did not even turn their backs till the horsemen were quite close, and had thrown several spears at them. The flashes from the pan of the gun seemed to alarm them more than anything; but they retreated very majestically, first throwing out, like the elephant first encountered, a quantity of sand. On their backs were a number of birds called tuda (a species of buphaga, probably), described as resembling a thrush in shape and note, and represented as being extremely useful to the elephant, in picking off the vermin from those parts which it is not in his power to reach.

In his excursion to Munga and the Gambarou, Major Denham and his party came, just before sunset, upon a herd of fourteen or fifteen elephants. These the negroes made to dance and frisk like so many goats by beating a brass basin with a stick; and in the neighbourhood of Bornou these animals were so numerous as to be seen near the Tchad in herds of from fifty to four hundred.

In temper the African elephant is considered to be more ferocious than the Asiatic, which may be one reason that it is not now tamed. But it is clear that the Carthaginians availed themselves of its services in war; and it can hardly be doubted that the elephants which Cæsar and Pompey exhibited in the amphitheatre came from Africa.

The tusks of this species are of grand dimensions, and form a lucrative branch of trade. The ivory of them being as much prized in modern times as it was by the ancients for furniture, ornamental purposes, and, above all, for the chryselephantine statues, such as those of the

Minerva of the Parthenon, and of the Olympian Jupiter, in the creation of whose forms Phidias surpassed himself. Regard being had to the ears, the shape of the African species appears to have been that chosen by Belial, A fairer person lost not heav'n,

in which to present himself to Faust:

Le gouverneur et principal maître du Docteur Fauste, vint vers le dit Docteur Fauste, et le voulut visiter. Le Docteur Fauste n'eut pas un petit de peur, pour le frayeur qu'il lui fit; car en la saison qui étoit de l'été, il vint un air si froid du diable, que le Docteur Fauste pensa être tout gelé.

Le diable, qui s'appelloit Belial, dit au Docteur Fauste: Depuis le Septentrion, où vous demeurez, j'ai vû ta pensée, et est telle, que volontiers tu pourvois voir quelqu'un des esprits infernaux, qui sont princes, pourtant j'ai voulu m'apparoître à toi, avec mes principaux conseillers et serviteurs, à ce que vous aussi aiez ton désir accompli d'une telle valeur. Le Docteur Fauste répond: Orsus, où sont ils?

Mark the courage of Faust under the influence of this Sarsar, this 'icy wind of death.' The devil was conscious that the great magician quailed not.

Or Belial étoit apparu au Docteur Fauste en la forme d'un éléphant, marqueté, et aiant l'épine du dos noire, seulement ses oreilles lui pendoient en bas, et ses yeux tous remplis de feu, avec de grandes dents blanches comme neige, une longue trompe, qui avoit trois aunes de longueur demesurée, et avoit au col trois serpens volans.

Ainsi vindrent au Docteur Fauste les esprits, l'un après l'autre, dans son poisle: car ils n'eussent peu être tous à la fois.

Or Belial les montra au D. Fauste l'un après l'autre, comment ils étoient, et comment ils s'appelloient. Ils vinrent devant lui les sept esprits principaux, à sçavoir; le premier, Lucifer, le Maître Gouverneur du Docteur Fauste, lequel se décrit ainsi. C'étoit un grand homme, et étoit chevelu, et picoté, de la couleur comme des glandes de chêne rouges, qui avoient une grande queue après eux.

And so that damned spirit passed by.

Après venoit Belzebub, qui avoit les cheveux peints de couleurs, velu par tout le corps; il avoit une tête de bœuf avec deux oreilles

effroiables, aussi tout marqueté de hampes, et chevelu, avec deux gros floquets si rudes comme les charains du foulon qui font dans les champs, demi verd et jaune, qui flottoient sur les floquets d'en bas, qui étoient comme d'un four tout de feu. Il avoit un queue

de dragon.

This apparition seems to have suggested that which so terribly disturbed poor old Trunnion; but the next evil spirit is at Faust's study door:

Astaroth; celui-ci vint en la forme d'un serpent et alloit sur la queue tout droit: il n'avoit point de pieds, sa queue avoit des couleurs comme de bliques changeantes, son ventre étoit fort gros, il avoit deux petits pieds fort cours, tout jaunes, et le ventre un peu blanc et jaunâtre; le col tout de chastain roux, et une pointe un façon de piques et traits, comme le Hérisson, qui avançoient de la longueur des doigts.

No naturalist could have given a more precise description of this devilish Pict.

Après vint Satan, tout blanc et gris, et marqueté; il avoit la tête d'une asne, et avoit la queue comme d'un chat, et les cornes des pieds longues d'une aune!

And so he vanished.

Suivit aussi Anubry. Il avoit la tête d'un chien noir et blanc, et des mouchetures blanches sur le noir, et sur le blanc des noires ; seulement il avoit les pieds et les oreilles pendantes comme un chien, qui étoient longues de quatres aunes.

This must have been the 'dog of Nile, Anubis.'

Après tous ceux-ci venoient Dythican, qui étoit d'une aune de long, mais il avoit seulement le corps d'une oiseau, qui est la perdrix: il avoit seulement tout le col verd et moucheté ou ombragé.

Were it not for the green neck and the bizarre quality of the plumage, we have here the very familiar that tripped along at the feet of Charles V. Titian has immortalized both.*

* In his full-length portrait of the emperor, with a tame partridge at his feet.

Le dernier fut Drac, avec quatre pieds fort courts, jaune et verd, le corps par-dessus flambant brun, comme du feu bleu, et sa queue rougeâtre.

This last grovelling spirit must have been the red-tape devil of the party.

Ces sept avec Belial, qui sont ces conseillers d'entretien, étoient ainsi habillez de couleurs et façons, qui ont été recitées.

Then came a rabble of fiends, some in the shapes of unknown creatures; others less ambitious, taking the forms of frogs, fallow deer, red deer, bears, wolves, apes, hares, buffaloes, horses, goats, boar-pigs, and the like: but are they not pictured in the fearful nightmare of Walpurgis night by the hand of Retszch, under the inspiration of Goethe?

We must lay down this fascinating old book,* even though we shut it in the face of our reader, albeit the indomitable Faust, no whit abashed, bids his friend 'go on; and stands undaunted the infernal battle wherein all these diabolical forms eat each other up, after changing to as many shapes as the Princess in the Arabian story, without even leaving their tails, to say nothing of the plague of insects which afterwards comes upon him and drives him almost mad; till bitten, stung, and blistered all over by the vilest vermin, he leaves the enchanted atmosphere of Belial and his study—not beaten, mind you— and coming forth into the blessed air of nature, finds that it is all a diabolical delusion, and that his skin is unsullied by a single insect, parasitic or predatory.

When Faust has Mephistopheles, thereafter, assigned to him, what adventures! But we must not be tempted further, though Alexander the Great himself is made to appear to the emperor, Charles V., as vividly as the

* Histoire prodigieuse et lamentable de JEAN FAUST, Grand Magicien, avec son testament, et sa vie épouvantable. A Cologne, chez les Héritiers de Pierre Marteau.