THE ELEPHANT
Its Structure.
- Vast numbers in Ceylon [75]
- Derivation of the word "elephant" (note) [76]
- Antiquity of the trade in elephants [77]
- Numbers now diminishing [77]
- Mischief done by them to crops [77]
- Ivory scarce in Ceylon [78]
- Conjectures as to the absence of tusks [79]
- Elephant a harmless animal [81]
- Alleged antipathies to other animals [82]
- Fights with each other [86]
- The foot its chief weapon [87]
- Use of the tusks in a wild state doubtful [88]
- Anecdote of sagacity in an elephant at Kandy [89]
- Difference between African and Indian species [90]
- Native ideas of perfection in an elephant [91]
- Blotches on the skin [92]
- White elephants not unknown in Ceylon [93]