Then they backed two steps, and hurled themselves at each other again.

After this had been repeated once or twice, they locked forehead to forehead, and each strove to push the other back.
For some time the struggle continued on equal terms.

Then the weaker began to give way, and was pushed back, step by step, until its strength failed altogether, and it was pushed over on to the ground, when the attendants at once interfered and separated them.
Some thirty pairs of rams fought, the affair being, to Dick, extremely monotonous.

The natives, however, took great interest in the contests, wagering freely on the issues, shouting loudly to the combatants, and raising triumphant cries when one was adjudged victor.
Then elephants were brought in; but the struggle between these was even tamer than between the rams.

They pushed each other with their foreheads until one gave way, when the other would follow it, beating it with its trunk, and occasionally shoving it.
When this sport was over, two parties of men entered the arena, amid a shout of satisfaction from the crowd.