THE ELEPHANT.
The Captives.
- A night scene [180]
- Morning in the corral [181]
- Preparations for securing the captives [181]
- The "cooroowe," or noosers [181]
- The tame decoys [182]
- First captive tied up [183]
- Singular conduct of the wild elephants [184]
- Furious attempts of the herd to escape [186]
- Courageous conduct of the natives [187]
- Variety of disposition exhibited by the herd [189]
- Extraordinary contortions of the captives [190]
- Water withdrawn from the stomach [191]
- Instinct of the decoys [191]
- Conduct of the noosers [194]
- The young ones and their actions [194]
- Noosing a "rogue." and his death [196]
- Instinct of flies in search of carrion (note) [196]
- Strange scene [197]
- A second herd captured [199]
- Their treatment of a solitary elephant [200]
- A magnificent female elephant [201]
- Her extraordinary attitudes [201]
- Wonderful contortions [203]
- Taking the captives out of the corral [204]
- Their subsequent treatment and training [205]
- Grandeur of the scene [205]
- Story of young pet elephant [6]
[CHAP. VII.]
THE ELEPHANT.
Conduct in Captivity.
- Alleged superiority of the Indian to the African elephant—not true [207]
- Ditto of Ceylon elephant to Indian [209]
- Process of training in Ceylon [211]
- Allowed to bathe [213]
- Difference of disposition [214]
- Sudden death of "broken heart" [216]
- First employment treading clay [217]
- Drawing a waggon [217]
- Dragging timber [218]
- Sagacity in labour [218]
- Mode of raising stones [218]
- Strength in throwing down trees exaggerated [219]
- Piling timber [219]
- Not uniform in habits of work [220]
- Lazy if not watched [220]
- Obedience to keeper from affection, not fear [221]
- Change of keeper—story of child [222]
- Ear for sounds and music [223]
- Hurra! (note) [223]
- Endurance of pain [224]
- Docility [225]
- Working elephants, delicate [225]
- Deaths in government stud [226]
- Diseases [227]
- Subject to tooth-ache [227]
- Question of the value of labour of an elephant [229]
- Food in captivity, and cost [230]
- Breed in captivity [231]
- Age [232]
- Theory of M. Fleurens [232]
- No dead elephants found [234]
- Sindbad's story [236]
- Passage from Ælian [237]