Atlantic City, 1916.


CONTENTS

[Foreword]

I.[THE STUDENT OF GOLCONDA]
II.[THE NATIVE FOREST]
III.[THE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION]
IV.[ROYAL ELEPHANT OF SIAM]
V.[THE DOWRY OF THE PRINCESS]
VI.[THE DEPARTURE]
VII.[THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD]
VIII.[BATTLE]
IX.[THE ESCAPE]
X.[GANESA]
XI.[WE ARE TAKEN FOR ROBBERS]
XII.[PARVATI]
XIII.[MY PRINCESS]
XIV.[ELEPHANT GAMES]
XV.[SCIENCE]
XVI.[FINE CLOTHES]
XVII.[THE ABDUCTION]
XVIII.[RETRIBUTION]
XIX.[THE HERMIT]
XX.[DESPAIR]
XXI.[JEALOUSY]
XXII.[FLIGHT]
XXIII.[THE HERD]
XXIV.[THE BRAHMAN]
XXV.[THE IRON RING]
XXVI.["THE GRAND CIRCUS OF THE TWO WORLDS"]
XXVII.[MY DEBUT]
XXVIII.[COMEDIAN]
XXIX.[THE RETURN TO PARADISE]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[A SPLENDID PROCESSION WAS FORMED AND BEGAN ITS MARCH. I FOLLOWED NEXT AFTER THE KING]

[TRANSPORTED WITH RAGE I RAN AT HIM, SEIZED HIM WITH MY TRUNK AND DRAGGED HIM FROM THE SADDLE]

[PARVATI RAN TO HIM, LAUGHING AND QUITE RECOVERED]

["WHICH OF YOU HAS BEEN GOOD?" SHE INQUIRED]

[I UTTERED A SUDDEN ROAR AND AT THE SAME TIME LEAPED TOWARD THE SERPENT]

["HE IS WHITE, AND THAT IS ALL THE MORE REASON FOR SENDING HIM OFF"]

["OH, IRAVATA! IRAVATA!" SHE SAID IN A LOW VOICE]


THE MEMOIRS OF A WHITE ELEPHANT