Cochrane, Charles Stuart (1825) Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia During the Years 1823 and 1824, Vol. II, p. 390
From a small chain of hills, near to this range of mountains [the Cordillera Occidental near Cartago], with a good glass, have been seen numbers of the carnivorous elephants, feeding on the plains which skirt these frozen regions: their enormous teeth have occasionally been seen; but no one has yet succeeded in killing one of these animals, or, indeed, in getting near to them.