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A native of rank informed me, that "the tail of a high-caste elephant will sometimes touch the ground, but such are very rare."
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This is confirmed by the fact that the scar of the ancle wound, occasioned by the rope on the legs of those which have been captured by noosing, presents precisely the same tint in the healed parts.
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Mahawanso, ch. xxxviii. p. 254, A.D. 433.
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PALLEGOIX, Siam, &c., vol. i. p. 152.
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Mahawanso, ch. xviii. p. 111. The Hindu sovereigns of Orissa, in the middle ages, bore the style of Gaja-pati, "powerful in elephants."—Asiat. Res. xv. 253.
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ARMANDI, Hist. Milit. des Elephants, lib. ii. c. x. p. 380. HORACE mentions a white elephant as having been exhibited at Rome: "Sive elephas albus vulgi converteret ora."—HOR. Ep. II. 196.