And there was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants , and Little Toomai was the hero of it all . And the big brown elephant catchers , the trackers and drivers and ropers , and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest elephants , passed him from one to the other , and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed jungle-cock , to show that he was a forester , initiated and free of all the jungles . And at last , when the flames died down , and the red light of the logs made the elephants look as though they had been dipped in blood too , Machua Appa , the head of all the drivers of all the Keddahs -- Machua Appa , Petersen Sahib 's other self , who had never seen a made road in forty years : Machua Appa , who was so great that he had no other name than Machua Appa , -- leaped to his feet , with Little Toomai held high in the air above his head , and shouted : `` Listen , my brothers . Listen , too , you my lords in the lines there , for I , Machua Appa , am speaking ! This little one shall no more be called Little Toomai , but Toomai of the Elephants , as his great-grandfather was called before him . What never man has seen he has seen through the long night , and the favor of the elephant-folk and of the Gods of the Jungles is with him . He shall become a great tracker . He shall become greater than I , even I , Machua Appa ! He shall follow the new trail , and the stale trail , and the mixed trail , with a clear eye ! He shall take no harm in the Keddah when he runs under their bellies to rope the wild tuskers ; and if he slips before the feet of the charging bull elephant , the bull elephant shall know who he is and shall not crush him . Aihai ! my lords in the chains , '' -- he whirled up the line of pickets -- `` here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places , -- the sight that never man saw ! Give him honor , my lords ! Salaam karo , my children . Make your salute to Toomai of the Elephants ! Gunga Pershad , ahaa ! Hira Guj , Birchi Guj , Kuttar Guj , ahaa ! Pudmini , -- thou hast seen him at the dance , and thou too , Kala Nag , my pearl among elephants ! -- ahaa ! Together !
To Toomai of the XXXXX .
Elephants Jungles brothers dance eye feast flames light lords name