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Old 10th December 2018, 02:27 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
Did they drug the elephants, like they did with the soldiers?...
Maybe not Jens. Not that they wouldn't consider doing so but, drugs often result in an unpredictable mode, like inverting their effects, which with such huge guys it would be rather inconvenient.

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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
... Moser 1912, plate XXIX, nos512-513. Weapon, to mount of the tooths of elephants.
Sorry for the bad quality.
Still a good picture ... and certainly an enlightening one ... Ariel ?
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