2»d S. VII. Feb. 12. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



133 



one possessed by J. A. S.) is dated 1503. See Dibdin's 

 Introduction to the Classics, edit. 1827, ii. 263.3 



*' The Gentoos." — Books about India, when I 

 was young, used to speak of the Gentoos ; we 

 never hear of them now. Who were the Gentoos, 

 and what became of them ? Senex. 



[The term Gentoos (a fanciful allusion to Gentiles or 

 Pagans) was a Portuguese appellation for the natives of 

 all India. By the English they were, and still are, de- 

 signated Hindoos, and are distinguished from the other 

 inhabitants of the Indian continent by their attachment 

 to Brahminism.] 



Growth of Deism in England. — Can any of 

 your learned contributors inform me who was the 

 autlior of An Account of the Growth of Deism in 

 England; in a Letter to a Friend, 1696, reprinted, 

 together with other tracts by the same author, in 

 one vol. 8vo. 1709. Dean Hickes says he was a 

 clergyman. (Preface of his Apologetical Vindica- 

 tion, 2nd ed.) C. F. S. 



\Thls work is by William Stephens, Rector of Sutton 

 in Surrey. In 1705, he published Occasional Thoughts 

 upon the " Wemorial of the Church of England," in a Letter 

 to the Author, reflecting upon Secretary Harley and the 

 Duke of Marlborough, for which he was indicted, fined 

 100 marks, sentenced to stand twice in the pillorj', and 

 find sureties for his good behaviour for twelve months. 

 The pillory was remitted, but not till he had been taken 

 to a public house at Charing Cross, and seen it prepared 

 for him. It is a curious coincidence that he should die 

 on the 30th of January (1717-18); for on preaching be- 

 fore the House of Commons on one of the anniversaries of 

 the MartjTdom of Charles I., he omitted the prayer for 

 the King and Royal Family, and suggested the impro- 

 priety of continuing the observance of the day ; upon 

 which the House resolved that no person be recom- 

 mended to preach before this House in future, who is 

 under the dignity of a Dean in the Church, or hath not 

 taken the degree of D.D. — Vide Manning and Bray's 

 Surrey, ii. 487.] 



aacpitc^. 



THE ELEPHANT. 



(2°'» S. vii. 89.) 



An inquirer under the signature of Libya has 

 quoted from Maccabees a passage which implies 

 that the elephant, when used in war, was stimu- 

 lated by the sight of the red juice of mulberries 

 and grapes : — 



" And to the end they might provoke the elephants to 

 flght, they showed them the blood of grapes and mul- 

 berries." — 1 Maccabees vi. 34. 



The passage in question involves a very curious 

 point regarding the instincts of the elephant ; and 

 from it, it might be inferred that the effect was 

 produced solely by the sight and colour of the 

 fluid. But the word " showed" (eSej^af) is in this 

 instance equivalent to the term " exhibited," by 

 which, in medical parlance, is meant " adminis- 

 tered." This will be seen by turning to the Third 

 Book of Maccabees (which is not printed in our 



Apocrypha, but which will be found in the Sep- 

 tuagint), where the author, in describing the 

 persecution of the Jews by Ptolemy Philopater, 

 B.C. 210, states that the elephants employed to 

 crush them to death in the hippodrome at Alex- 

 andria, had previously had wine given them to 

 drink : olucfi nKeioi't aKpdT(f> voTiffai, &c., 3 Maccab. V. 

 5. The statement is repeated in the 10th and 

 45 th verses of the same chapter. 



Libya inquires whether this custom is recorded 

 in any other work, and whether such means of 

 excitement are ever resorted to now. I have 

 some recollection that the practice alluded to is 

 noticed by Armandi in his Histoire Militaire des 

 Elephants ; but I am not able to turn to the pas- 

 sage. Another author by whom the custom is 

 mentioned of exciting the elephant by wine, pre- 

 viously to taking him into battle, is Manuel Phile, 

 who early in the fourteenth century dedicated to 

 the Emperor Andronicus the Elder his metrical 

 description of the elephant, :Zvi'rofios 'E\e(pai/ros. 

 In the 145th and following lines he says if the 

 wine of the grape cannot be had the elephant will 

 take that of the lotus or the palm, or even arrack 

 distilled from rice : — 



" Olvov &i TOi' TocrovTOi' exxftpaivet KuAcf ; 



*0|/ 6 TpVyT^TTjp eKKCVOt TOiV ^OTpUWI/. 



'OpeKTiiav te Koi. (T<j>aSa.^<uv ecs fuixiji', 



Toi' OLTTO ACOTOU KOI TOI/ aTTO <f>Ol.vCK(aV 



Kal T-ijs opvfijs e(cpo</>€t tjjs aypCas 

 'Os av 6 flv/iAOS aKparoii viro^ecov 

 'AvTicrraTtKaJy KapS(,(X)TTei,v oTpyvn. ' 



PhiM, Elepk, 1. 145. &c. 



J. Emerson Tenkent. 



The only author, I believe, who mentions the 

 custom of exciting elephants to fury in battle by 

 showing them the juice of grapes and mulberries, 

 is the celebrated Spanish physician, Francis Va- 

 lesio. He is thus cited for the practice by Corne- 

 lius a Lapide : " Valesius S. Philos, c. 82." 



F. C. H. 



conseceation of bishop barlow. 

 (2°'»S. vi. 526,; vii. 48. 91.) 



I am glad to see that F. C. H. does not attempt 

 to answer Lingard, or to deny altogether the fact 

 of Bishop Barlow's consecration. He only en- 

 deavours to throw doubt on certain portions of 

 the evidence adduced in its favour, and draws his 

 own conclusions therefrom. This is a question of 

 facts, and as such must be treated. It would have 

 been far more satisfactory if F. C. H. had given 

 the authority for his statements ; as it is, he only 

 makes a number of assertions without proof. 



First F. C. H. states that on his introduction 

 to St. David's, Barlow is described as full Bishop 

 of St. Asaph's. What meaning F. C. H. may at- 

 tach to this word, it is difficult to determine, but 

 he himself acknowledges that Bishop Barlow was 



