117.
anecdote of, 118.
elephant's mode of drinking, 120.
their method of swimming, 121.
wells sunk by, 122.
receptacle in the stomach, 122.
stomach, anatomy of, 124.
food of the elephant, 129.
instinct in search of food, 130.
dread of fences, 131.
their caution exaggerated, 132.
spirit of curiosity in elephants, 132.
anecdote of Col. Hardy, 132, 133.
sagacity in freedom over-estimated, 134.
leave the forests during thunder, 134.
cunning, feign death, 135.
stories of encounters with wild elephants, 136.
sporting, numbers shot, 142.
butchery by expert shots, 142 _n_.
fatal spots in the head, 144, 145.
peculiar actions of elephants, 148.
love of retirement, 149.
elephant-trackers, 150.
herd charging, 151.
carcase useless 153.
remarkable recovery from a wound, 154. _See Lieut_. Fretz.
mode of taking in India, 157-162.
height measured by the circumference of the foot, 159.
mode of shipping elephants at Manaar, 162.
mode of shipping elephants at Galle, in 1701, 163 _n_.
_keddah_ for taking elephants in Bengal, 164.
a corral (kraal) described, 165, 166.
derivation of the word _corral_, 165 _n_.
corral, its construction, 167, 172.
corral, driving in the elephants, 173.
the capture, 177.
mode of securing, 181.
the "cooroowe," or noosers, 181.
tame elephants, their conduct, 182, 191.
captives, their resistance and demeanour, 184.
dread of white rods, 186.
their contortions, 190.
a young one, 206.
conduct in captivity, 207.
mode of training, 211.
their employment in ancient warfare, 207.
superiority of Ceylon, a fallacy, 209.
elephant driver's crook (hendoo), 212.
hairy elephants in Ceylon, 215 _n_.
Elephants, capricious disposition of, 215.
first labour intrusted to them, 217.
his comprehension of his duties, 218.
exaggeration of his strength in uprooting trees, 218 _n_.
Mahouts and their duties, 221.
Their cry of _urre!_ 222 _n_.
elephant's sense of musical notes, 223.
its endurance of pain, 224.
diseases in captivity, 225.
subject to tooth-ache, 227.
questionable economy of keeping trained elephants for labour, 229.
their cost, 230.
their food, 230 _n_.
fallacy of their alleged reluctance to breed in captivity, 231.
duration of life in the elephant, 232.
theory of M. Fleurens, 232.
instances of very old elephants in Ceylon, 233.
dead elephant never found, 234.
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