mahaut

“See how skilfully that "mahaut" manages his huge yet obedient servant.”

Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"

“Every elephant had two men, the _mahaut_ and his assistant; every two camels, one man; every cart, two men; besides whom were the _kholassies_ (tent-pitchers), the _chikarries_ (native huntsmen to mark down and flush the tiger), letter-carriers for the official personages, and finally the personal servants of the party, amounting in all to something like a hundred and fifty souls.”

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876

“Funchal, the profile of Garajáo is that of an elephant's head, the mahaut sitting behind it in the shape of a red-brown boss, the expanded head of a double dyke seaming the tufas of the eastern face.”

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

“The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, meaning "[one] having great measure.”

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