The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon

by Sir James Emerson Tennent

• A DAM’S PEAK, ascent of by elephants, page [41]
• ——, encounter with wild elephants near, [77]
• Adventures with elephants, [71]
• Ælian, account of the export of elephants from Ceylon, [5] n.
• —— his fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, [7] n.
• —— alleged antipathy of the elephant and rhinoceros, [9], [15]
• —— his account of training, [151]
• —— error as to the elephant being without joints, [34], [35] n.
• —— says elephants were trained to kill by their knees, [16] n.
• —— on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant, [152] n.
• —— elephant, love of music, [168] n.
• —— elephants performing at Rome, [168] n., [183]
• Aetagalla Rock, legend of, [107]
• Affection for their young, [47]
• African elephant teeth different from Indian, [vii.]
• —— ribs and vertebræ, [viii.] [20]
• —— both sexes have tusks, [6]
• —— ivory preferred to Ceylon in Europe, [6] n.
• —— conjecture respecting tusks, [7]
• —— great size of tusks; 300 lbs. and upwards, [7], [8]
• African elephant is not vulnerable in the forehead, as the Ceylon elephant is, page [81]
• Age of elephants, [123], [177]
• —— estimated duration of life in, [177]
• Airavanta, Sanscrit, origin of the word elephant, [4] n.
• Alce. See Elk, [33]
• Alexandri Epistola ad Aristolelem, [11]
• Alexander the Great, his Indian expedition, [150]
• —— coins of, [151] n.
• Alisaunder, English romance of, [12] n.
• Allia. See Hora allia, [82]. See Rogue
• Alligator River, elephant hunt at, [106]
• Anarajapoora, instinct exhibited by elephants at, [65]
• Anatomy of the elephant imperfectly known, [56]
• —— account of by Molyneux, A.D. 1696, [56] n.
• Ansted, Prof., on the height of elephants, [31] n.
• Antipater brought the first Indian elephant to Greece, [150]
• Antipathy of elephants to other animals, [12], [15]
• —— its improbability, [15]
• Ants, superior to the elephant in sagacity, [68]
• —— their marvellous power of discovering sugar, [139] n.
• Arabian Nights, story of the burial place of dead elephants, [182]
• ἅρπη. See Hendoo, [156] n.
• Aristotle, on the trunk of the elephant, [28] n.
• —— on the fallacy of the elephant having no joints, [33]
• —— on the double stomach of the elephant, [57] n.
• —— on its mode of levelling trees, [140] n.
• Armandi, error as to the height of Ceylon elephant, [31] n.
• —— on the double stomach of, [67] n.
• —— on elephants in war, [151]
• Ar-ré, sound to guide elephants, [167] n.
• —— its variations in various countries, [ib.]
• Arundel MSS., errors as to the elephant, [36]
• Assam, elephant of, [x.]
• Avisavelle, elephant corral at, [43]
  
• B ADULLA, fight between two elephants at, [16]
• —— adventures with elephants near, [71], [74]
• Baker, Sir Samuel, on the weight of African ivory, [8] n.
• —— his stories of elephant shooting, [77] n.
• —— on the difference between the Ceylon and African species, [20] n.
• —— on power to uproot trees, [162] n.
• —— on the size of the elephant’s foot in Africa, [98] n.
• Barbezieux, Richard de, error as to joints of elephant, [37]
• Bari, size of African ivory at, [8] n.
• Bathing elephants, story of, [51], [55] n.
• Benary, his theory of the derivation of the word elephant, [4] n.
• Bengal, elephants of, [viii.]
• —— method of poisoning them, [6]
• —— mode of capturing them, [104]
• Bentinck, Baron, communication from, [viii.] [ix.]
• Bernier, as to the supposed superiority of the Ceylon elephant to that of India, [152]
• “Bestiaries” of the Middle Ages, in error as to the joints of the elephant, [36]
• Burmah, method of capturing elephants in, [97]
• Bison, its instinct as to harvest time, [64]
• Blair, Dr., on the anatomy of the elephant, [56] n.
• Bles, M., affection of elephants for their young, [47.] See Buffon
• —— on training elephants, [159] n.
• Bo-trees, sacred; eaten by elephants, [111.]
• Bochart, derivation of the word elephant, [4] n.
• Bonaparte, Prince Lucien, his account of the Sumatran elephant, [viii.]
• Breeding in captivity, fallacy as to, [176]
• Broderip, on the mode of training, [155]
• —— on the size of tusks in elephants, [8] n.
• —— on the stomach of, [56]
• Brooke, Sir victor, Bart., great elephant shot by, [9] n.
• —— immense tusk, [16]
• Browne, Sir Thomas, Vulgar Errors, exposes the delusion as to there being no joints in the elephant, [32], [38]
• Buchanan, on rogue elephants, [49] n.
• Buffalo, double stomach of, [63]
• Buffon. See Bles
• —— on the double stomach of the elephant, [57] n.
• —— on training, [159] n.
• Burial place of the elephants, as told in the story of Sinbad of the Sea, [181]
• Burying their dead, alleged habit of elephants, [180]
  
• C ÆSAR, his story of the alce, [33]
• Cambodia, method of training elephants in, [157]
• Camel, alleged antipathy of the elephant to, [13]
• —— cellular stomach, [60]
• Camper, on the double stomach of the elephant, [58]
• Captivity, conduct of elephants when first taken, [150]
• Carthaginians employed elephants in war, [151]
• Caution of elephants as to pit-falls alleged, but doubtful, [67]
• Ceylon, geological formation of the island, [vii.]
• —— export of elephants to India, viii. [5]
• —— profuse number of elephants in, [5]
• —— cause of declining numbers, [6]
• Charlemagne, elephant sent to by Haroun Alraschid, [35]
• Chena cultivation, [64]
• China, Ceylon ivory preferred for carving, [62]
• Chittagong, elephant of, [x.]
• Chuny, the tame elephant killed at Exeter Change, its cruel death, [169]
• Climbing, ability of the elephant in, [41]
• Cochin China, elephant of, [xi.]
• Cockayne. See Alexandri Epistola, etc., [11]
• Coco-nut, how eaten by an elephant, [64]
• Coleridge, on the sagacity of the elephant, [68]
• Colombo frequented by elephants in 1705 A. D., [5]
• Combe, on the brain of the elephant, [86]
• Cooroowe. See Noosers, [122], [155]
• Coroners’ inquests show few deaths by elephants, [10]
• Corral or Kraal, operations of, [95]
• —— in Bengal, how constructed. See Keddah, [104]
• —— dimensions, [113]
• —— form of, [112]
• —— its strength, [114]
• —— the drive of the elephants, [115]
• —— the rush and return, [116]
• —— singular night scene, [117]
• —— the capture made, [118]
• —— noosed and secured, [121]
• —— distress of the captives, and their struggles, [125], [135]
• —— terror of the elephants for white rods, [128]
• —— noticed by Pliny, [128], n.
• —— conduct of the young ones, [137]
• —— extraordinary scene, [140]
• —— interesting demeanour of the captives, [140]
• —— a second herd driven in and taken, [143]
• —— leading out the captives, [147]
• Corse, his account of the Indian elephant, [47]
• Cosmas Indicopleustes, his account of the export of elephants from Ceylon, [5] n.
• Courage in open ground, [86], [87]
• Cripps, Mr., description of a strange sound made by elephants, [29]
• —— story of an elephant feigning death, [70]
• —— on the taming and training of elephants, [158]
• —— on their attachment to attendants, [166]
• Cripps, Mr., on elephants breeding in captivity, [177]
• Cruelties in elephant shooting, [77] n.
• Ctesias, fallacy that the elephant has no joints, [33]
• Cumming, Mr. Gordon, his cruel experiments on the vital endurance of the elephant, [81] n.
• —— questionable stories of trees uprooted by elephants, [162] n.
• Curiosity, spirit of, strong in the elephant, [67]
• —— story of Colonel Hardy, [67]
• Cuspis. See Hendoo, [156] n.
• Cuttack, elephant of, [x.]
• —— method of poisoning elephants in, [6]
• Cuvier, on the comparative sagacity of the elephant, [68]
• —— on the tusks of elephants, [173]
• —— on duration of life in, [177]
  
• D AH! DAH! word hateful to wild elephant, [100]
• Dakra, a poison for elephants in Bengal, [6] n.
• Darwin, on the burial place of llamas and goats, [101] n.
• Davy, Dr., on endurance of pain in the elephant, [168]
• —— on the spirit of curiosity in the elephant, [67]
• Dawson, Capt., an elephant shot by, dies standing, [39]
• De Blainville, on the duration of life in the elephant, [177]
• De Bry, story of a horse killed by a trained elephant, [13]
• Dead elephant, body rarely found, [179]
• Deafness occasional in elephants, [30]
• Death feigned by an elephant, [70]
• Decoy elephants, their conduct, [119], [123], [134]
• Défenses. See Tusks, [9]
• Dekkan, elephant of the, [xi.]
• De Lima, General, immense tusks got by, in Africa, [8] n.
• Denham, Major, on the height of an African elephant, [31]
• ——, Major, power of elephant to overthrow trees, [162] n.
• Descending acclivities, mode of, [44]
• Dentine, [173]. See Ivory
• Dicuil, description of the elephant of Charlemagne, [35]
• Dinka, size of African ivory at, [8] n., [12]
• Diodorus Siculus, on the sagacity of the Indian elephant, [150]
• Dogs, elephants impatient of, [14]
• —— Major Skinner’s dog, kept off the elephants by its bark, [15]
• —— superior in sagacity to the elephant, [69]
• Donne, His error as to the joints of the elephant, [38]
• Dublin, elephant burnt to death, [26] n.
• “Duipa,” an Indian name of the elephant, its signification, [63] n.
• Dust, habit of throwing it over themselves, [133]
• Dutch possessions in India, [vii.] See Temminck
• —— elephant hunts conducted by, [95]
  
• E AR, formation of, [167]
• —— love of music, [168] n.
• —— Sir Everard Home, on hearing in the elephant, [167]
• Ebony, logs piled by elephants, [164]
• “Eleph,” Hebrew, conjectured to be the root of elepha, [4] n.
• “Elephant,” derivation of the word, [4] n.
• —— conjectures of Pictet, Bochart, Pott, and Benary, [4] n.
• —— great numbers in Ceylon, [5]
• —— will ere long be extinct in India, [6] n.
• —— alleged enmity to man, and other animals, [10]
• —— signs of perfection in. See Hastisilpe, [21]
• —— natural colour of the skin, [22]
• —— loves shade, [25]
• —— scene, by night while bathing, [52]
• —— stomach of the elephant double, [56]
• —— the Ceylon elephant supposed to exceed that of India in sagacity, [152]
• Elephant, the first brought to Greece by Antipater, [150]
• Elephant shooting. See Shooting
• ἐλέφας signified not the elephant, but its ivory, [4] n.
• —— Benary’s derivation of the word, [66] n.
• Elephas Sumatranus. See Sumatra, [viii.]
• —— supposed to differ from the elephant of India, [vii.]
• —— this theory doubted by Dr. Falconer, [ix.]
• Elk, error of Cæsar in saying that the “alce” has no joints, [33]
• Englishman, Voyage of a certain, story of an elephant killing a horse, [13] n.
• Evelyn, John, refutes the fallacy that the elephant has no joints, [33]
• Eye of the elephant small, [26], ib. n.
• —— its accuracy when engaged in working, [26]
  
• F AIRHOLME on the elephant, [159] n.
• Falconer, Dr., doubts the alleged difference between the elephants of Sumatra and India, [ix.]
• —— on the height of elephants, [31] n.
• Fanning themselves, habit of, [84]
• —— extreme grace of the movement, [136]
• —— in the corral, [135]
• Feet, habit of swinging, [84]
• —— not, as supposed, a substitute for exercise, [85]
• Females in a herd, numerous, [47]
• Fences, elephant’s dread of, [65]
• Fils-ben, Danish for ivory, [4] n.
• Flesh of the elephant coarse, [88]
• Fleurens, on the duration of life in the elephant, [177]
• Flies, their marvellous faculty of discerning carrion, [139] n.
• —— account of their hurrying to death-beds, [139] n.
• Food of the elephant when wild, [63]
• —— when tamed and trained, [175]
• Foot, a frequent seat of disease, [170]
• —— its extreme sensitiveness, [133]
• —— of the elephant makes good soup, [89]
• —— twice its circumference equal to the height of the animal, [98] n.
• Forbes, anecdote from his Oriental Memoirs, [107] n.
• Forehead of the elephant, wound in, fatal, [80]
• Fossil elephant, [159] n.
• Fretz, Gerard, frightful wound, [90]
  
• G ADJAH. See Sumatran elephant, [viii.]
• Gallwey, Capt. P. Payne, number of elephants shot by him, [77] n.
• Geological formation of Ceylon, [vii.]
• “Goondah.” See Rogue, [48]
• Gooneratné Modliar, his derivation for the word elephant, [5] n.
• Guillim, heraldry of the elephant, [38] n.
  
• H AIRY elephants, [159] n.
• Hardy, Colonel, story of, [69]
• Haroun, Alraschid, sends an elephant to Charlemagne, [35]
• Harrison, Dr., on the anatomy of the elephant, [26] n., [57] n., [60], [61]
• —— on the structure of the head, [79]
• —— on the ear of the elephant, [167]
• Hastisilpe, a Singhalese work on elephants, [17] n., [21]
• Hawkus. See Hendoo, [155]
• Head, wound in, fatal, [79]
• —— section of, [80]
• —— this fact noticed by Pliny, [79] n.
• Hearing. See Ear
• Heber, Bishop, describes a diminutive species of elephant, [159] n.
• Hedges, dreaded by elephants, [67]
• Height, exaggerated estimates of, in elephants, [30]
• Hendoo, used by the mahout, [155]
• Herd, the term described as applied to the elephant, [45]
• —— similarity of features in, [45]
• —— submissive to one leader, [50]
• —— their conventional association and attachment, [45]
• Herodotus, account of the antipathy of the elephant to the camel, [13]
• —— veneration for white horses and white oxen, [23]
• Himalayas, elephant paths on, [43]
• Hippopotamus, solitary individuals of, [49]
• Hodgson, Mr. B. H., his explorations in Nepal, [xi.]
• Hog, double stomach of, [58]
• Holland, Dr., on the physiology of tusks, [17] n.
• Home, Sir Everard, on the double stomach of the elephant, [58]
• —— on the ear of the elephant, [166], [167]
• Home, Randal, his heraldry of the elephant, [38]
• Hooker, Dr., elephants in the Himalayas, [43]
• Hora. See Rogue, [47], [72]
• Horace, mentions a white elephant at Rome, [24]
• Horse, alleged antipathy of the elephant to, [12]
• —— instances in disproof of this, [13]
• —— killed by a trained elephant, [13]
• —— anecdote of the meeting of a horse and an elephant, [19]
• —— structure of the shoulder joint, [41]
  
• I DLENESS, love of, in tame elephants, [165]
• Indian elephant supposed to differ from that of Sumatra, [viii.]
• —— comparative anatomy of, [vii.]
• —— varieties of the same species in, [x.]
• —— elephant is dying out in India, [6] n.
• Indicopleustes (see Cosmas), export of elephants, [5]
• Ivory, annual importations of, [6] n.
• —— proportion from Ceylon, [6] n.
• —— of Ceylon preferred in China, [6] n.
• —— African preferred in Europe, [6] n.
• —— weight of, in various countries, [8] n.
• —— immense African tusks at Goa, [8] n.
• —— how formed. See Dentine, [173]
  
• J AFFNA, instinct shown by elephants at, [64]
• Jardine, Sir William, fallacy as to elephants shedding tusks, [7] n.
• Java, no elephants in the island, [viii.]
• Joints, ancient error as to the elephant having none, [32]
• —— explanation of its origin, [38], [39]
  
• K ANDY, the King of, held the killing of an elephant a criminal offence, [5]
• —— his hunts for capturing elephants, [96]
• Keddah. See Corral, [104]
• Kimbul-oya. See Alligator River, [106]
• Knox, his account of executions by trained elephants, [17]
• —— on the attachment of the herd to the young, [47]
• —— his accounts of elephant hunts in Kandy [77] n.
• Kombook tree; lime extracted from the bark, [110]
• Korahl. See Corral.
• Korles, the Seven, elephant hunts in, [4]
• Kornegalle, beauty of the place, [107]
• —— its temple the resort of Buddhists, [108]
• —— sacred footstep on the rock, [108]
• Kraal. See Corral
• —— derivation of the word, [105]
• Kurahl. See Corral
• Kurminia-galla, [107] n.
• Kurunoi-galla. See Kornegalle
  
• L ABOUR of tame elephants too costly, [164], [174.] See Tame Elephants
• Lampongs. See Sumatra, [viii.]
• Leap, the elephant unable to, [40]
• —— anecdote, doubtful, of an elephant leaping, [41]
• Le Brun, his account of the elephants in Ceylon, [5] n.
• Leyden, elephants in Museum, [x.]
• Life, duration of in the elephant, [177], [178]
• Lightning, dreaded by elephants, [68]
• Lindsay, Mr., adventure with elephants, [75]
• Livingstone, Dr., on the solitary hippopotamus, [49]
• Llama, double stomach of, [60] n.
• Louis XIV., elephant belonging to, [57]
• Loxodon. See Elephas Sumatranus, [viii.]
• Luca bos, Roman term for the elephants of Pyrrhus, [4] n.
  
• M ACCABEES, story of Jews killed by elephants, [16] n., [154] n.
• Machlis, an unknown animal, described by Pliny, [33]
• M‘Gee, Dr., his account of flies hurrying towards persons dying, [139] n.
• Mahawanse, mention of a white elephant in, [23]
• Mahout, elephant driver, the power of discrimination in India, [x.]
• —— conduct of the mahouts in a corral, [129]
• —— mahouts said to die young, [166]
• Males, proportion of in a herd, small, [47]
• Malta, small fossil elephant found at, [159] n.
• Man, elephant has no natural antipathy to, [10]
• —— few deaths occasioned by them, [10]
• Manaar, singular scene on shipping elephants for India, [102]
• —— described in A.D. 1701, [102]
• Marfil, Spanish name for ivory, [4] n.
• —— See Mafirm, Portuguese, [ib.]
• Marfil, Palma de, the vegetable ivory palm, [4] n.
• Marfim, Portuguese for ivory, [4] n.
• Massoudi, on the use of the elephant in war, [159] n.
• Matthew Paris, his error as to the joints of the elephant, [36]
• Matura, elephants shipped from for India, [103]
• Mercer, Mr. Græme, story of a fight between two elephants, [16]
• Metatarsus, shortness of, enables the elephant to climb, [43]
• Molyneux, his anatomy of the elephant, [56]
• Moormen of Ceylon, [97]. See Panickeas.
• Morris, Mr., conducts the corral in 1847, [109]
• Moulin, A., his letter to Sir William Petty, [56] n.
• “Mudda.” See “Must,” [11]
• Muddy water not objected to by elephants, [55]
• Music, elephants’ love of, [168]
• “Must,” term explained, [11]
  
• N OUAER, size of African ivory at, [8] n.
• Natives of Ceylon, their narratives of accidents and adventures with elephants, [71]
• Negombo, adventures with elephants at, [75]
• Nepal-root, a poison for elephants, [6]
• Nepal, mode of capturing elephants in, [97]
• Nile, White, enormous tusks got near, [8] n. See Baker, Sir Samuel
• Noises produced by elephants, [27]
• Noosers. See Cooroowe, [122]
• —— their extraordinary courage, [136]
• Noosing elephants, as practised by the Panickeas, [99]
• Noosing in a corral, operation described, [122], [124]
• Numidia, Medal of, [156] n.
  
• O LFACTORY lobes, [26] n.
• Optic nerve in the elephant, [26] n.
• Osteology of the elephant. See Teeth, [viii.] [x.]
• Owen, Prof., on the anatomy of the elephant, [56] n., [59], [60], [62]
• —— on the formation of ivory, [173]
  
• P AIN, patient endurance of, [168]
• Pallegoix, on the white elephant, [23] n.
• —— on sounds produced by elephants, [30] n.
• Palma de marfil, the vegetable ivory palm, [4] n.
• Panickeas, their marvellous skill as trackers, [97]
• —— their singular courage, [79]
• —— their method of capturing wild elephants, [99]
• —— mode of taming after capture, [101]
• —— their method of conducting the captives to the coast, [101]
• Paris. See Matthew Paris.
• Peccary, double stomach of, [58]
• Petherick, his account of large ivory in Soudan, [8] n.
• Phile, his error as to the joints of the elephant, [35]
• —— difficulty of the elephant in rising, [30]
• —— elephant does not object to muddy water, [55] n.
• —— thinks the elephant hates the pig, [117] n.
• —— on elephants as executioners, [154] n.
• —— elephant’s love of music, [168] n.
• Phillipe, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant, [152]
• Physiologus. See Theroaldus, [36]
• Pictet, Prof., his essay on the derivation of the word elephant, [4] n.
• Pigs, antipathy of the elephant to. See Swine, [14]
• —— spoil the capture at a corral, [116]
• Pingo, [71] n.
• Pit-falls, elephants surprised in, [67].
• —— objections to, [96]
• Pliny, his fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, [7] n.
• —— as to the antipathy of the elephant to other animals, [15]
• —— error as to the joints of the elephant, [32]
• —— the machlis, [33]
• —— terror of the elephant for white rods, [128]
• —— mode of taming it, [151]
• —— belief that the elephant has two hearts, [160]
• Poison for destroying elephants in Bengal, [6]
• Polyhistor. See Solinus, [35]
• Ponnekella. See Mahout, [122]
• Portuguese, elephant hunts conducted by, [95]
• —— origin of the word corral, [105]
• Pott, conjecture as to the derivation of the word “elephant,” [4] n.
• Pringle, on power of elephant to uproot trees, [162] n.
• Provençal song-writers, errors as to the elephant, [37]
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica. See Sir Thomas Browne.
• Ptolemy Philopater, employs elephant to kill Jewish martyrs, [16] n.
• Punishments for tame elephants, [165]
• Puswael, a gigantic bean, [110]
• Pyrard, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon to that of India, [152]
• Pyrrhus, his elephants, [4] n., [150]
  
• R AIN, coming of foreseen by the elephant, [69]
• Raja-Kariya, [110]. See Ripon.
• Ramgur, method of poisoning elephants in, [6]
• Ranghani, the nooser, [123]
• —— his prowess and success, [127]
• Raté-mahat-meyas, encourage the taking of elephants in corrals, [111]
• Reinaud, on the use of the elephant in war, [154] n.
• Repose, peaceful, of the elephant, [84]
• Retirement, love of, [85]
• Rhinoceros, alleged antipathy between and the elephant, [9]
• Ripon, Earl of, abolishes rajakariya, [110]
• Rise, difficulty of the elephant to, [38], [39]
• Rogers, Major, story of his horse and the elephants, [13] n.
• —— elephant shot by him falls on its knees, [39]
• —— number killed by him, [77] n.
• Rogue elephant, their origin and habits, [46]
• —— their vice and depredations, [49], [50], [82] n.
• —— captured in a corral, [138]
• —— his death, [138]
• Rome, performance of elephants, [168] n., [183]
• Ronkedor. See Rogue, [47] n.
• Ronquedue. See Rogue, [ib.]
  
• S AGACITY of the elephant, its superiority questioned, [68]
• —— Indian elephant said to excel the African in, [150]
• —— compared with that of the horse and dog, [161]
• Saragossa, elephant fight, exhibited, [10] n.
• Schlegel, Prof., on the elephant of Sumatra, [viii.]
• —— doubts its distinctness from the elephant of Ceylon, [viii.-xi.]
• —— on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant, [152] n.
• Serpents, in Ceylon, more accidents from than from elephants, [10]
• Severac, Jordanus de, on the mode of training elephants in Cambodia, [157] n.
• Shakspeare, error as to the joints of the elephant, [37]
• —— on capturing elephants in pitfalls, [96] n.
• Shaw, fallacy as to the elephant shedding the tusks, [7] n.
• Shilook, size of African ivory at, [83]
• Shooting elephants, [77]
• —— cruelties of, [77] n.
• —— fatal spot in head, [79], and ear, [ib.]
• Siam, elephant of, xi.
• —— sounds produced by, [30] n.
• Sight, power of, [26]
• —— accuracy of eye when working, [162]
• Silhet, elephant of, [x.]
• Sinbad of the Sea, story of the burial place of dead elephants, [181]
• Siribeddi, the female decoy, her ability, [123]
• —— her conduct, [145]
• Skinner, Major, story of his dog, [15]
• —— his description of a strange sound made by elephants, [29]
• —— finds elephant traces on Adam’s Peak, [41]
• —— number of elephants shot by him, [78]
• —— scene described by,—elephants at night, [51]
• —— story of the courage of an elephant hunter, [99] n.
• Sleaman, General, account of wolves suckling children, [47] n.
• Sloane, Sir Hans, on the anatomy of the elephant, [56] n.
• Smell, power of, [27], [98]
• Solinus, his error as to the joints of the elephant, [35]
• Sounds uttered by the elephant, [27]
• Soup, made from the elephant’s foot, [89]
• Speed of an elephant, [32]
• Sport. See Shooting
• Stomach of the elephant, double, [56]
• Stones, how raised by elephants, [162]
• Strachan, Mr., description of shipping elephants at Manaar, [103] n.
• —— on their liability to sudden death, [160] n.
• Structure of the elephant, [4]
• Stuckley, Dr. William, on the anatomy of the elephant, [56] n.
• Sudden death, liability of elephants to, [159], [160] n.
• “Sun and moon,” emblems of duration, [187]
• Sumatra, elephant of, [viii.]
• —— called gadjah, [viii.]
• —— description by Temminck, [vii.] n.
• —— opinion of Prof. Schlegel on its distinctness from the elephant of India, [viii.]
• —— ribs and vertebræ, [vii.]
• —— teeth of, [viii.]
• —— this opinion controverted by Dr. Falconer, [ix.]
• Surgical operations on elephants, [168]
• Swimming, action of the elephant in, [55]
• Swine, alleged antipathy of elephant to, [11], [14]
  
• T AME elephants, their conduct in the corral, [134.] See Decoys
• —— value of their labour [162], [174]
• —— levelling trees, [163]
• —— piling timber, [164]
• —— laziness, [165]
• —— punishments, [165]
• —— attachment to attendants, [166]
• —— medical treatment, [168], [170]
• —— obedience to orders, [169]
• —— causes of death in captivity, [171]
• —— weight of draught, [174]
• —— cost of feeding a tame elephant, [175]
• —— favourite food, [175]
• Tavernier, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon, [153] n.
• Teeth of the Sumatran elephant, [viii.]
• Temminck’s Dutch Possessions in India, [viii.]
• —— account of Sumatran elephant, [viii.]
• Theroaldus, Physiologus, error in, as to the joints of the elephant, [36]
• Thevenot, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon elephant to that of India, [152]
• Thomson, error in his Seasons, as to the joints of the elephant, [38]
• Timber, how dragged by elephants, [161] n., [162]
• —— wonderful skill in piling of, [164]
• Tipperah, elephant of, [x.]
• Tissaweva. See Anarajapoora, [65]
• Tooth-ache, [172]
• Training elephants, [150], &c.
• —— first employments, [161]
• —— males more unmanageable than females, [158]
• —— process of, [150]
• —— varieties of disposition, [159]
• Trees, manner in which elephants level them, [146]
• —— stories of overthrowing exaggerated, [162]
• Trompe. See Trunk
• Trumpeting, peculiar sound of, [144]
• Trunk, so called from “trump,” [28]
• —— Aristotle compares the sound to a trumpet, [ib.]
• —— strange drawings of, in the fifteenth century, [28] n.
• Tushes, their use to the elephant, [7]
• —— they, and not the tusks, shed, [7] n.
• Tuskers, influence of in the herd, [50]
• —— their efficiency in a corral, [136]
• Tusks, rare in the Ceylon elephant, [6]
• —— in Africa both male and female have them, [6]
• —— average weight of those imported, 60 cwt., [6] n.
• —— in Ceylon are light, owing to the animals being shot young, [6] n., [8]
• —— a favourite treasure in Buddhist temples, [6] n., [8]
• —— both sexes have, in India and Africa, [6] n., [8]
• —— fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, [7]
• —— conjecture as to the presence of, in African elephant, and their absence in that of India and Ceylon, [7]
• —— weight in various countries, [8] n.
• —— instance of a diseased one, [8] n. See Brooke, Sir Victor
• —— female elephant has none, in Ceylon, [9]
• —— not ordinarily used as weapons of offence, [9]
• —— fight between an elephant and two bulls, at Saragossa, [10] n.
• —— fight of two elephants with their tusks, [10]
• —— story in Maccabees of Jews killed by elephants, [16] n.
• —— what is their use, [17], [17] n.
• —— abnormal varieties in shape, [17] n.
• Tytler, Mr., story of curiosity in elephants, [67] n.
  
• V ALENTYN, his account of shipping elephants for India from Ceylon, [103]
• Vegetable ivory palm, [4] n.
• Vulgar Errors. See Sir Thomas Browne, [32]
  
• W ATER, love of the elephant for, [4] n.
• —— attempt to derive the word elephant from, [4] n.
• —— receptacle for, in the stomach, [56]
• —— quantities withdrawn by the trunk in the corral, [133]
• Weber’s Metrical Romance of the thirteenth century, [12] n.
• Wells, dug by elephants, [54]
• White elephant; a lusus naturæ, [23]
• —— exhibited in Holland in 1633, [24]
• —— mentioned by Horace at Rome [ib.]
• White, Gilbert, of Selborne, on the affection of animals to the young of others, [46] n.
• White oxen worshipped in Egypt, [23]
• Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, on the knowledge of the elephant in ancient Egypt, [152] n.
• Wolf, his strange adventures in Ceylon, [31] n., [48], [105] n.
• —— on the capture of wild elephants, [96] n.
• —— on the height of the elephant, [31]
• Wolves suckling children, [46] n.
• Wound of Lieut. Fretz, [90]
• Wright’s Reliquiæ Antiquæ, [36]
  
• Y OUNG, affection for, [47]
• Young elephants, their conduct when captured, [137]
• —— their tricks in captivity, [138], [148]
• Yule, Colonel, on the liability of the elephant to sudden death, [160] n.

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