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Africa produces elephants, beyond the deserts of the Syrtes, and in Mauritania; they are
found also in the countries of the Ęthiopians and the Troglodytę as mentioned above. But
it is India that produces the largest, as well as the dragon, which is perpetually at war
with the elephant, and is itself of so enormous a size, as easily to envelope the elephants
with its folds, and encircle them in its coils. The contest is equally fatal to both; the
elephant, vanquished, falls to the earth, and by its weight, crushes the dragon which is
entwined around it.
- Pliny the Elder. The Natural History, Chapter 11, p. 2260.
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