INDEX.

Abyssinian elephant, [176].
tusks of, [176].
Actium, [239].
Adams Peak, [24].
Adelphi Theatre, [187].
Adis, battle of, [295].
Ælian, [193], [295].
refers to a white elephant, [117].
Age of elephants, [22].
Aggageers, [172-176].
Agra, [245].
amphitheatre at, [245].
Prince of Wales at, [253].
Agrippina, [233].
Air-cells of elephant’s skull, [6].
Akbar, the emperor, elephants of, [268].
as an elephant-rider, [209].
Albert, Barnum’s rogue elephant, [151].
Albinism of elephants, [124].
Albino, test of, [132].
Alexander the Great, elephant medal of, [287].
passing the Indus, [284].
war elephants of, [277].
Alexander Severus, famous battle with three hundred elephants, [308].
American showman, [66].
Anarájapoora, Temple of the Tooth at, [117].
Ánay, elephant-hunting cry, [110], [154].
Antiochus, King of Syria, [233], [290].
Ants, [27].
Anytus, [232].
Apennines, elephants marching over, [301].
Aphis, [27].
Apis of Buddha, [119], [131].
Appian, his account of war with elephants, [303].
Arcot, Nabob of, [265].
Argos, [294].
Aristotle, on elephants’ joints, [313].
Amoræus, King, elephants of, [277].
Arno, elephants passing the, [301].
Artaxerxes, elephant battle of, [308].
Arnold, Edward, [125].
Asdrubal, commander of Carthaginian forces, [303].
war elephants of, [303].
Asiatic Society, Journal of, ways of elephants, [13].
Antiochus, [291].
Aurelian, triumph of, [253].
Aurengzebe, in battle with elephants, [266].
Ava, king of, [130].
elephants of, [21], [130].
Baby elephant, [179].
Baber, Emperor, on height of elephants, [21].
Baker, Sir Samuel, [5], [25], [98], [174].
Baines, Sir Thomas, [223], [311].
Baldwin, elephant-hunter, [164].
Barnum, Phineas T., [7], [66], [68], [148].
white elephant, [123].
Barrackpoor, [18], [207].
Beard, J. C., [181].
Behrens, Dr., [315].
Bengal elephant-catching establishment, [92].
Berrien, Capt., U.S.N., [213].
Bheemruttee, a famous elephant, [22].
Bishop Heber on motion of elephants, [207].
Bock, Carl, author, [132].
Book of Maccabees, armor of elephants, [276].
Bo-trees, a sacred tree, eaten by elephants, [144].
favorite food of elephants, [12].
Bowring, Sir John, [119], [126], [133].
Brain of the elephant, [29].
Bridgeport, baby elephant, [10].
city of, [204].
Brooke, Sir Victor, [109], [115].
Browne, Sir Thomas, [312].
Buddha, mythology of, [118], [120].
Buddhists, Apis of, the white elephant, so called, [119].
Burmah, white elephant of, [309].
Cæsar, Julius, account of fighting by elephants, [307].
Caffre beaten to death by a rogue elephant, [160].
Cambodia, King of, large elephant-owner, [124].
Cannæ, battle of, with elephants, [301].
Cananore, extraordinary strength of elephants at, [209].
Capua, [303].
Carthaginians fighting with elephants, [295], [303].
Ceylon elephant, [12], [25], [137], [138], [310].
Chandnee-Doon, rogue near, [159].
Chardin, author, [122].
Charges by elephants, [85], [102].
Charlotte, N.C., rogue elephant at, [150].
Chicago Medical College, skeleton of a large elephant in, [311].
Chief, a famous elephant, [150].
China, use of mammoths’ tusks in, [309].
Chittagong, elephant forest, [92].
Chundasaheb, Indian nabob, [265].
Chuni, a famous elephant, [193].
Commissariat Department of Madras, sales of elephants at, [86].
Conqueror, a notable elephant, [5].
Coorg, baby elephant from, [22].
Cooroowe vidahm, head stableman for elephants, [146].
Cornwallis, Marquis, [20].
Coromandel, use of elephants in war of, [210], [265].
Corral, elephant, [137], [144].
Corse, elephant hunter, [2], [11], [20].
Cranes on elephant’s back, [192].
Crawford, author, on elephants, [118], [130], [208].
Crems, skeleton of elephant in, [315].
Cripps, elephant hunter, [24], [146].
Cross, H. H., author, on elephants, [29].
Ctesias, earliest writer on elephants in war, [277], [279].
Cumming, elephant hunter, [5].
Cuvier, [6].
Curius Dentalus, wars of, [294].
Czar Peter, [21].
Dacca, Nabob of, [20].
in Bengal, elephant establishment, [204].
Dah! dah! a cry used to disconcert wild elephants, [143].
Dalton, Dr. J. C., opinion on intelligence of the elephant, [29].
Daman, the siege of, [268].
Dauphiné, in France, [314].
Dara, potentate who fought with elephants, [266].
Dehra Rájah, native chief, [163].
Delhi, battle of, [271].
war elephants of, [271].
Department, Commissariat, Madras, [86].
Department, the Forest, [88].
Demetrius, in battle with elephants, [289].
Denman, Major, an African traveller, [310].
Didius Julianus, in battle with elephants, [308].
Devonshire, Duke of, owner of a well-trained elephant, [190].
Deuteronomy, Og of Basan, [315].
Dimensions of elephant’s skeleton, [311].
D’Obsonville, M., observations by, [202].
Dom Pedro, a Philadelphia elephant, named for the emperor, [149].
Doon, rogue elephant in the, [158].
Dow, an author, describes elephants with swords lashed upon their trunks, [269].
Driver, called mahout, [96].
Drummond, author, [13], [29].
Dufferin, Lord, presented with a “living paper-cutter,” [203].
Duke of Edinburgh, owner of elephant Tom, [150].
Dunlop, Capt., British army, refers to rogue elephant Gunesh, [158].
Dutch stables at Molura, an old elephant found there, [147].
Dwásala, a caste of elephants, [94].
East India Company, [20].
East Indian elephant-traders, [91].
Elephant, Asiatic, how captured, [77].
Asiatic, in captivity, [91].
Asiatic, various breeds of, [93].
Asiatic, fodder of, [95].
Asiatic, Barnum’s, harnessed, [204].
Asiatic, on ancient medals, [233].
Asiatic, food of, [12].
as a swimmer, [18].
battery, [255].
catchers, [12].
Ceylon, [137].
Ceylon, number exported, [138].
characteristic voices of, [139].
Duke of Devonshire’s, [190].
dwarf, [9].
famous:—
“Albert,” [151].
“Alice,” [75].
“Bridgeport,” [10].
“Chief,” [150].
“Conqueror,” [5].
“Dom Pedro,” [149].
“Emperor,” [150].
“Hebe,” [179].
“Jumbo,” [60-76];
his death, [74];
skeleton of, [312].
“Romeo,” [151].
“Tom,” [150].
female, [10].
gait of, [207].
hunt, by Sir Victor Brooke, [109].
hunt, close quarters, [112].
hunters, daring of Arab, [174].
in captivity, [91-96].
in pageantry, [249].
in the amphitheatre, [241].
in the arts, [231].
in Egyptian art, [177].
in the circus, [189].
intelligence of, [28].
ivory of the, [217].
Meerga caste, [139].
methods of communicating with, [139].
owned by Louis XIV., [17].
paper-cutter, [203].
parades, [252].
riding, Bishop Heber’s account of, [207].
rogue, a famous, [157].
rogue, Gunesh, [158].
rogue, a dangerous, [160].
rogue, mischievous, [161].
Sanderson’s adventure with a rogue, [156].
tusks, as trophies, [115].
tusks, largest Asiatic, [115].
weight of, at birth, [10].
white, [117].
white, Vincent on, [119].
white, worshipped, [120].
white, Kircher on, [122].
white, Mr. Barnum’s, [123], [133].
white, nature of, [124].
white, order of, [125].
white, rare creatures, [127].
white, number captured, [127].
white, ceremonies attending the capture of, [127].
white, ceremonies at the death of, [128].
white, attentions bestowed on, [129].
white, Zachard saw, [130].
white, of Siam, [130].
white, of Ava, [130].
white, “The Lord of the,” [130].
white, young, [131].
white, of Bangkok, by Vincent, [131].
white, Theebaw’s, [131].
white, points of perfection of, [132].
white, Toung Taloung, [132].
white, hunters of, [134].
white, bill of sale of Barnum’s, [134].
white, “The Light of Asia,” [136].
Elephants and their friends, [192].
at work, [201].
Asiatic, hunting, [97].
as saddle-beasts, [206].
as battering-rams, [202].
as executioners, [199].
as nurses, [202].
a team of, [209].
armor of, in the Mogul Empire, [268].
Ceylon, age of, [146].
Ceylon, 140 years old, [147].
curiosity of, [143], [161].
damage to crops by, [156].
expense of, [97].
expense of keeping, [96].
extraordinary strength of, [209].
fictions about, [309].
fishing by, [210].
flesh esteemed, [176].
gestation of, [10].
great caution of, [264].
habits and ways of, [12].
harnessed, [205].
hauling ships, [209].
hauling timber, [204].
herds of, captured in Ceylon, [144].
howdahs for, [207].
hunting African, [164].
hunting, account by Selous, [164].
hunting, account by Livingstone, [168].
hunting, narrow escapes, [170].
hunting, with swords, [172].
hunting, weapons used in, [99].
hunting, by Sanderson, [103].
in battles, [290], [291], [293], [297], [299], [301].
large ones shot, [105].
measurement of, [19], [115], [311].
memory of, [162].
methods of mounting, [208].
must, or mad, [151].
natural history of, [1].
obedience of, [31].
of Julius Cæsar, [307].
of Scipio, [306].
of Artaxerxes, [308].
of Alexander, [308].
of Kublai Khan, [274].
“playing possum,” [31].
ploughing, [204].
present of, to the President of the United States, by King of Siam, [211].
revenge of, [31].
riding, their speed, [207].
rogue, [148].
rogue, persons killed by, [149].
rogue, temporary, [162].
Shakspeare on, [313], [315].
shooting, [99].
skeletons of, [5], [311], [314].
so-called solitaries, [152].
stories of, by Pliny, [309].
stories of, by Ælian, [309].
teeth of, [3], [311].
training of, [145].
types of, [14], [139].
value of, [94].
war, of modern Asia, [255], [265].
war, of Alexander the Great, [277].
Elephants war, of the Romans, [296].
wild, the attack by, [98].
Elephas Africanus, African elephant, [1].
Elephas Americana, a tooth of, [310].
Elephas Indicus, Indian or Asiatic elephant, [1].
Elephanta, Island of, [231].
Elephantarch, governor of elephants, [289].
Fictions, proboscidian, [309].
Gejjhemp, a portion of an elephant battle-armor, [269].
“Geraldine,” a famous elephant, [19].
“Goliath,” [314].
Grand Khan, elephant hunt of the, [200].
Grote, F., & Co., [219].
“Gunesh,” a rogue elephant, [158].
Hamilton, Col. Douglass, [109], [112].
Hamran Arabs, skilled elephant fighters, [171].
Hannibal’s elephant in Spain, [296].
elephants crossing the Po, [301].
Hannibal, passage of his war elephants over the Pyrenees, [297].
war elephants of, [297], [308].
his elephants in Africa, [304].
Hardy, Col., [161].
Hartenfels, author, on elephant, [4].
Height of elephants, fictions about, [310].
Heraclear, [293].
Herald, New York, on “Jumbo,” [65], [117].
Hindostan, the crown of, [268].
Holland, white elephant in, [132].
Home, Sir Everard, [17].
“Hora,” or “ronkedor,” native name for a rogue elephant, [159].
Howdah, saddle of an elephant, [205].
Hutchinson, J. H., notable elephant owner, [134].
Indian elephant, [2], [6].
Instinct of elephants, [28].
Intelligence of elephants, [27].
Ivory, [217].
bangles of, [221].
colossal statue in, [239].
College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, [229].
doors of the Palatium in, [239].
dust of, [222].
F. Grote & Co., vaults of, [219].
hunters of, [226].
importation of, [220].
in the arts, [236].
in Hotel Cluny, [235].
in Ptolemy’s ship, [238].
Juno of Argos in, [237].
Leo X., his taste in, [218].
mammoth tusks, [226].
Minerva in gold and, [238].
Odontological Society, London, [229].
Phidias’ statue in, [237].
plaques in South Kensington, [235].
Roman tablets of, [218].
schroons, or wrappers, of, [221].
statue of Alexander in, [238].
Westendorp & Co., vaults of, [219].
Jinjalls, a small cannon, [99].
Juggernaut, elephant in ceremonies of, [251].
Julius Cæsar, war elephants of, [307].
“Jumbo,” [66-76].
Kábul, merchants of, [94].
Kandy, Temple of, [120].
Kaslegar, King of, battles, [275].
King of Cambodia, [124].
King of Siam, [124].
Kircher, author, on elephant, [122].
Knight, Charles, & Co., [Preface].
Koomeriah, best breed of elephant, [93].
Kreiger Karol, hunter and author, [171].
Kublai Khan, [209].
elephants of, [274].
Kurrabas, native attendants, [105].
Lahore, [270].
“Leveller of the Earth,” name of white elephant, [129].
“Light of Asia,” a white elephant, [136].
Lincoln, Abraham, offered elephants, [215].
Livingstone, [168].
Livy describes battles with elephants, [297].
“Lord of the White Elephant,” [130].
Louis XIV., owner of an elephant, [17].
Lucanian oxen, elephants so called, [294].
Lucerne, gigantic skeleton in, [314].
Maccabees, Book of, on elephant armor, [276].
Macedon, elephants of, [299].
Macedonian army, elephant battalion of, [284], [306].
Machlis, [313].
Magnesia, battle of, with elephants, [306].
“Mahaw Anso,” a treatise on the elephant, [117].
Mahmood, elephant of, [117], [122].
Mahout, name of an elephant driver, [202].
Mammoth, a complete, [227].
tusks, [226].
tusks analyzed, [226].
Manaar, important elephant depot, [144].
Mandalay, Theebaw’s capital, [131].
Mandla, a rogue elephant, [153].
Marco Polo, on elephants in battle, [272].
Mastodon giganteus, [312].
Mastodon, [312].
Meerga, a breed of elephants, [94].
Metaurus, battle of, with elephants, [303].
Metellus captures war elephants, [296].
Milton, poem on elephant in pageantry, [241].
Mogul Empire, elephant armor in, [268].
Morlay, important depot of elephant, [153].
Must, madness of elephants, [151].
Mysore, elephant-catching establishment at, [12].
Mysore, elephant locality, [12].
Negaha, food of elephants, [12].
Nordenskiöld, [227].
Oriental field sports, [2].
Oswold, Mr., African elephant-hunter, [170].
Oxen, Lucanian, [294].
Oxford Museum, fine tusk at, [226].
Pageantry, [249].
Pakher, an elephant’s armor, [269].
Panickeas, remarkable elephant-fighter, [143].
Perdiccas, elephants crossing Nile, [301].
elephants of, [288].
Phidias, his statues of ivory, [236-238].
Pickaninny, trick-elephant, [186].
Pipes, carved elephant, [239].
Plato on the elephant, [238].
Pliny on the elephant, [123], [188], [218].
Plutarch, [238].
Polybius describes the battle of Raphia, [290].
Porus, King, his large force of elephants, [284].
Proboscidian fictions, [309].
Proboscis, use of, [6].
Ptolemy, his elephants at Gaza, [289].
Purchas, author, [194].
Putnam, C. E., [239].
Pydua, siege of, and elephants at, [288].
Pyrrhus, King, his elephants of war, [293].
Quabeet, Selous’s servant, [167].
Raphia, battle of, [290].
Riding-elephants, [207].
Rogue elephant, a mad one, [148].
Rose, Mr. Cowper, elephant hunter, [8].
Royal Zoölogical Gardens, England, [68].
Sanderson, G. P., author and hunter, [2], [22], [23], [25], [77], [80], [93].
Scipio, elephants of, [304].
Selous, elephant hunter and author, [14], [164].
Semiramis, queen, her wooden elephants, [277].
Shakspeare, on elephant’s joints, [313].
Shakspeare, fictions in, [315].
Siam, King of, [211].
Soopyalot, queen of Theebaw, [131].
Solitary elephants, [152], [154].
Stabrobates, an Indian king, [282].
Statue, ivory, [238].
St. Petersburg Museum, mammoth at, [311].
South Kensington Museum, [235].
Sultan Mamood, his magnificent armament of elephants, [270].
Syria, elephants used in, [292].
Tablets, ivory, [218].
Tachard, Father, elephant-fight seen by, [245].
Toung Taloung, Barnum’s white elephant, [132].
Tennent, Sir Emerson, author, [145], [160].
Temple of Tooth, [117].
Theebaw, Indian potentate, [124].
his white elephant, [125].
Tiger-hunt, [198].
Tight-rope, [188].
Timour, his victory over elephants, [270].
his elephant-team, [209].
Tom Thumb, trick-elephant, [186].
Totans & Schmidt, great tusk at, [230].
Tower of London, elephants at, [188].
Training elephants, [145].
Trebia, battle of, [301].
Trick-elephants, [184].
Tuskless elephants, [138].
Tusks, bullets in, [228].
elephants with nine, [223].
huge, [223].
javelin in, [229].
spiral, [223].
Vices of elephants, [148].
Victoria, Queen, [125], [126].
Order of white elephant conferred on, [125].
Volk, Charles, elephant-hunter, [170].
War elephants, [255].
Ward, Professor, [65], [74].
Westendorp & Co., [219].
White elephant, [117], [136].
Xantippus, elephant batteries of, [295].