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...petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than face that, he takes on a risky assignment in Indo-China: to drag out a French company's teak supply just ahead...
...Toke. Oozies are the natives who train, ride and care for working elephants. Bandoola's oozie was called Po Toke. At first Po Toke had little to do. Elephants mature slowly, take five years to be weaned, another eleven before they can begin to pull and haul heavy teak logs from the hills to the rivers. Author Williams gives Po Toke credit for two pioneering firsts that changed the course of elephant training: 1) Bandoola was the first Burmese work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants and tamed...
Formosa, an island about 100 miles off the South China coast, is slightly larger than Maryland. Two-thirds of Formosa is covered with tropical forest-banyans, Japanese cedars, teak, black ebony and most of the world's camphor trees...
Burma is full of elephants that never forget. Back in the '20s and '30s, when J. H. ("Elephant Bill") Williams was working as elephant manager for the Bombay Burma Trading Corp., he traveled from camp to camp, inspecting the jumbos whose job was pushing & pulling four-ton teak logs down from the hills...
After Hannibal. Teak (for the decks of combat ships, etc.) had a high priority in World War II. It was Elephant Bill Williams' job to get it out. Later, on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, he used the animals to haul bridge timbers and supplies, hoist bogged-down army equipment...