Some days after, not knowing who I was, he asked me if I knew any trade?  I answered, that I was no mechanic, but a merchant; and that the corsairs, who sold me, robbed me of all I had.  But tell me, replies he, Can you shoot with a bow?  I answered, that the bow was one of the exercises of my youth, and I had not forgotten it.  Then he gave me a bow and arrows, and taking me behind him upon an elephant, carried me to a vast forest some leagues from the town.  We went a great way into the forest, and when he thought to stop, he bid me alight:  then showing me a great tree, Climb up that tree, says he, and shoot at the elephants as you see them pass by; for there is a prodigious number of them in this forest, and if any of them fall, come and give me notice of it.  Having spoken thus, he left me victuals, and returned to the town and I continued upon the tree all night, during which I saw no elephants, but next morning, as soon as the sun was up, I saw a great number; I shot several arrows among them, and at last one of the elephants fell; the rest retired immediately, and left me at liberty to go and acquaint my patron with my booty.  When I had told him the news, he gave me a good, meal, commended my dexterity, and caressed me mightily.  We went afterwards together to the forest, where we dug a hole for the elephant; my patron designing to return when it was rotten, and to take his teeth, &c. to trade with.  I continued this game for two months, and killed an elephant every day, getting sometimes upon one tree, sometimes upon another.  One morning, as I looked for the elephants, I perceived, with extreme amazement, that, instead of passing by me across the forest, as usual, they stopped, and came to me, with a horrible noise, in such a number that the earth was covered with them, and shook under them.  They encompassed the tree where I was, with their trunks extended, and their eyes all fixed upon me.  At this frightful spectacle I continued immovable, and was so much frightened, that my bow and arrows fell out of my hands.  My fears were not vain; for, after the elephants had stared upon me some time, one of the largest of them put his trunk round the root of the tree, and pulled so strong, that he plucked it up, and threw it on the ground:  I fell with the tree, and the elephant, taking me up with his trunk, laid me on his back, where I sat more like one dead than alive, with my quiver on my shoulder.  He put himself afterwards at the head of the rest, who followed him in troops, and carried me to a place where he laid me down on the ground, and retired with all his companions.  Conceive, if you can, the condition I was in:  I thought myself to be in a dream; at last, after having lain some time, and seeing the elephants gone, I got up, and found I was upon a long and broad hill, covered all over with the bones and teeth of elephants.  I confess to you that this object furnished me with abundance of reflections.  I admired the instinct of those animals; I doubted not but that was their