CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE CAPTURING OF WILD ELEPHANTS. 



Method Adopted for Taking Herds— Constitution of a Kheddah Party — Sketch of 

 Operations — The Catching of Single Elephants — Following Them during the 

 Night — Pitfalls — Barbarity of this Method — Noosing — Judgment Regarding 

 Recaptured Elephants in a Case before the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta. . 70 



CHAPTEE VIII. 



THE ELEPHANT IN CAPTIVITY. 



Consideration of the Elephant's Intelligence — The Domestic Elephant's Temperament 

 — Fallacies Regarding the Power of the Trunk — Orientals' Ideas of Perfection 

 in Elephants — Their Breeds or Castes — Koomeriahs — Dwasalas — Meergas — 

 Distinguishing Points — White Elephants — Special Value of Tuskers — Rule and 

 Reason for Cutting Tusks — Economic Uses in Draught — As Beasts of Burden — 

 Of Display — Riding- Elephants — Shikdr Elephants — Elephant - Marts — Export 

 from Ceylon — Prices of Elephants — Past — Present — Probable Future of the 

 Market — Recpoirements in Elephants and Means of Supply to the Bengal Govern- 

 ment — The Dacca Kheddah Establishment — Bengal Licence System of Capturing 

 Elephants — Means of Supply of Elephants to the Madras Government — Kheddahs 

 in the Madras Presidency — The Burmah Market — Appendix on Breeding of 

 Elephants. .......... 78 



CHAPTER EX. 



THE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF ELEPHANTS. 



Elephants' Attendants — Mismanagement of their Charges— Chief Ailments of Ele- 

 phants — Kinds of Fodder — Grass — Branches — Under-fed Elephants — The Ele- 

 phant Feeds Constantly in its Wild State — Allowance of Fodder to Government 

 Elephants in Bengal and Madras — Remarks on the Above Scales — The Amount 

 an Elephant will Eat. . . . . . . . .96 



CHAPTER X. 



ELEPHANT-CATCHING IN MYSORE. 



Commence Elephant-Catching in Mysore— Plans at Morlay in 1873— Failure of First 

 Attempts — Change of Plans— Commencement of the Rains — Visit of a Herd — Its 

 Movements— Surround the Herd of Fifty-four Elephants — Exciting Night-Scenes 

 — The Small Enclosure — Visitors to Camp — Drive the Herd into the Enclosure — 



