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teachers    it puts them aside with its trunk, so as not to
trample them under foot; and it never hurts any thing unless
when provoked.  When one has fallen into a pit the others fill
up the pit with branches, earth and stones, thus raising the
bottom that he may easily get out.  They greatly dread the noise
of swine and fly in confusion, doing no less harm then, with
their feet, to their own kind than to the enemy.  They delight
in rivers and are always wandering about near them, though on
account of their great weight they cannot swim.  They devour
stones, and the trunks of trees are their favourite food.  They
have a horror of rats.  Flies delight in their smell and settle
on their back, and the beast scrapes its skin making its folds
even and kills them.   When they cross rivers they send their
young ones up against the stream of the water; thus, being set
towards the fall, they break the united current of the water so
that the current does