It took the middle of the road in a fine independent way, and left it to the world to get out of the way or take the consequences.

I am used to being afraid of collisions when I ride or drive, but when one is on top of an elephant that feeling is absent.

I could have ridden in comfort through a regiment of runaway teams.

I could easily learn to prefer an elephant to any other vehicle, partly because of that immunity from collisions, and partly because of the fine view one has from up there, and partly because of the dignity one feels in that high place, and partly because one can look in at the windows and see what is going on privately among the family.

The Lahore horses were used to elephants, but they were rapturously afraid of them just the same.