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The Wild Elephant. 



from the throat, is a terrific roar of anger or revenge." ' 

 These words convey but an imperfect idea of the variety 

 of noises made by the elephant in Ceylon ; and the 

 shrill cry produced by blowing through his trunk, so far 

 from being regarded as an indication of " pleasure," is 

 the well-known cry of rage with which he rushes to en- 

 counter an assailant. Aristotle describes it as resem- 

 bhng the hoarse sound of a " trumpet." ^ The French 

 still designate the proboscis of an elephant by the same 

 expression "trompe" (which we have unmeaningly cor- 

 rupted into tru/ik), and hence the scream of the elephant 



' Menageries, etc. "The Elephant," lib. x. ch. cxiii. A manuscript ofjhe 



ch. iii. p. 68. 15th century in the British Museum, 



"Aristotle, De A?iijH. lib. iv. c. ' containing the romance of " Alex- 



9, oy-olov o-a'ATTtYYi. See also Pliny, under" which is probably of the fif- 



teenth century, is interspersed with literally in the form of iruinfets with 



drawings illustrative of the strange expanded months. See AVright's ^r- 



animals of the East. Amongst them cheeological Album, p. 176, and M.S. 



are two elephants, whose trunks are Reg. 15, e. vi. Brit. Mus. 



