The 19th century traveler James Emerson Tennent comments that "a Kandyan chief, who was witness to such scenes, has assured us that the elephant never once applied his tusks, but, placing his foot on the prostrate victim, plucked off his limbs in succession by a sudden movement of his trunk."
James Emerson Tennent en rejsende i det 19. århundrede bemærker, at "et kandisk overhoved, der var vidne til sådanne scener, har forsikret os om, at elefanten aldrig brugte sine stødtænder, men i stedet satte dens fod på det omkuldslåede offer og rev dets lemmer af en efter en ved en pludselig bevægelse af snabelen."