After a while he added: The elephants of this place are wild, but I have read that asiatic elephants, for instance, have a strange weakness for children.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Had the sum of the world's beautiful things been added to, I could have grinned and borne it, but it was beaten copper-work the asiatic made.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
Newbold, "Journal of the asiatic Society," vol.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham