Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Heard Elephants’ Ears Flap. [ARTICLE]

Heard Elephants’ Ea r s Flap.

I lately made two shooting trips to tho_ jungles of lower Burmah, and each time in the midst of the greatest hardships. The forest scenery had the power to force itself upon the notice as seeming each day more and more impressive and magnificent, At^ such times both the silence and the strange rounds of the jungles, each in their different way, combine to affect tlie sjortsman; the occasional weird hootings of the monkeys in the treetops: the distant flap, flap of an elephant’s ears breaking in upon the periect stillness as you approach the herd, or perhaps, instead, the penuy-trumpet-like squeak which announces its proximity; and, a* the day wears on, the stillness is suddenly broken in upon by the whirring and soon almost deafening sound with which with one accord the insects revive after the heat of the afternoon. All these influences combine to produce an effect which those who have not experienced them will find difficult to imagine, and those who have experienced them must find hard to describe.