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INDEX. 



ADA 



ADAM'S PEAK, ascent of by 

 elephants, page 41 

 — , encounter with wild elephants 



near, 77 

 Adventures with elephants, 71 

 .i^LiAN, account of the export of 

 elephants from Ceylon, 5 it. 



— his fallacy as to the elephant 

 shedding his tusks, 7 n. 



— alleged antipathy of the ele- 

 phant and rhinoceros, 9, 15 



— his account of training, 1 5 1 



— error as to the elephant being 

 without joints, 34, 35 n. 



— says elephants were trained to 

 kill by their knees, 16 n. 



— on the supposed superiority of 

 the Ceylon to the Indian ele- 

 phant, 152 «. 



— elephant, love of music, 168 ;;. 



— elephants performing at Rome, 

 168 «., 183 



Aetagalla Rock, legend of, 107 

 Affection for their young, 47 

 African elephant teeth different 

 from Indian, vi. 



— ribs and vertebrae, vi. vii. 20 



— both sexes have tusks, 6 



— ivory preferred to Ceylon in 

 Europe, 6 n. 



— conjecture respecting tusks, 7 



— great size of tusks ; 300 lbs. 

 and upwards, 7, 8 



ANT 



African elephant is not vulnerable 

 in the forehead, as the Ceylon 

 elephant is, page 8 1 



Age of elephants, 123, 177 



— estimated duration of life in, 

 177 



Airavanta, Sanscrit, origin of the 



word elephant, 4 n. 

 Alee. See Elk, 33 

 Alexandri Epistola ad Aristolelan, 



II 

 Alexander the Great, his Indian 



expedition, 150 



— coins of, 151 n. 

 Alisaiindcr, English romance of, 



\in. 



Allia. See Hora allia, 82. See 

 Rogue 



Alligator River, elephant hunt at, 

 106 



Anarajapoora, instinct exhibited 

 by elephants at, 65 



Anatomy of the elephant im- 

 perfectly known, 56 



— account of by Molyneux, A. D. 

 1696, 56 «. 



Ansted, Prof, on the height of 



elephants, 31 n. 

 Antipater brought the first Indian 



elephant to Greece, 150 

 Antipathy of elephants to othej- 



animals, 12, 15 



— its improbability, 15 



