24 The Wild Elephant. 



but as this was some years before the Dutch had estab- 

 lished themselves firmly in Ceylon, it was probably 

 brought from some other of their eastern possessions. 



phanis, lib. ii. c. x. p. 3S0. Horace phas albus vulgi converteret ora." 

 mentions a white elephant as having (HOR. Ep. II. 196.) 

 been exhibited at Rome : " Sive ele- 



