The Ivory King: A popular history of the elephant and its allies

by Charles Frederick Holder

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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].