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Index. 



Ants, superior to the elephant in 

 sagacity, 68 



— their marvellous power of dis- 

 covering sugar, \y^n. 



Arabian Nights, story of the burial 

 place of dead elephants, 1 82 



opiri;. &^ Hendoo, 156 «. 



Aristotle, on the trunk of the ele- 

 phant, 28 n. 



— on the fallacy of the elephant 

 having no joints, 33 



— on the double stomach of the 

 elephant, 57 n- 



— on its mode of levelling trees, 

 140 n. 



Armandi, en-or as to the height 

 of Ceylon elephant, 31 n. 



— on the double stomach of, 67 «. 



— on elephants in war, 151 

 Ar-7-e, sound to guide elephants, 



167 n. 



— its variations in various coun- 

 tries, ib. 



Arundel MSS., errors as to the 



elephant, 36 

 Assam, elephant of, x. 

 Avisavelle, elephant corral at, 43 



BADULLA, fight between two 

 elephants at, 16 



— adventures with elephants near, 



71, 74 

 Baker, Sir Samuel, on the 

 weight of African ivory, 8 n. 



— his stories of elephant shooting, 



77 «• 



— on the difference between the 

 Ceylon and African species, 20 ;/. 



— on power to uproot trees, 162 n. 



— on the size of the elephant's 

 foot in Africa, 98 n. 



Barbezieux, Richard de, error 

 as to joints of elephant, 37 



Bari, size of African ivory at, 8 n. 



Bathing elephants, story of, 51, 

 55 «• 



BUF 



Benary, his theoiy of the deriva- 

 tion of the word elephant, 4 n. 

 Bengal, elephants of, viii. 



— method of poisoning them, 6 



— mode of capturing them, 104 

 Bentinck, Baron, communication 



from, viii. ix. 



Bernier, as to the supposed su- 

 periority of the Ceylon elephant 

 to that of India, 152 



^^ Bestiaries" of the Middle Ages, 

 in error as to the joints of the ele- 

 phant, 36 



Bimiah, method of capturing ele- 

 phants in, 97 



Bison, its instinct as to liarvest 

 time, 64 



Blair, Dr., on the anatomy of 

 the elephant, 56 n. 



Bles, M., affection of elephants 

 for their young, 47. See Buffon 



— on training elephants, 159 n. 

 Bo-trees, sacred ; eaten by ele- 

 phants, iii. 



BocHART, derivation of the word 

 elephant, 4 n. 



Bonaparte, Prince Lucien, 

 his account of the Sumatran ele- 

 phant, vi. 



Breeding in captivity, fallacy as to, 

 176 



Broderip, on the mode of train- 

 ing, 155 



— on the size of tusks in elephants, 

 8«. 



— on the stomach of, 56 

 Brooke, Sir Victor, Bart., great 



elephant shot by, 9 n. 



— immense tusk, 16 

 Browne, Sir Thomas, Vulgar 



Errors, exposes the delusion as 

 to there being no joints in the ele- 

 phant, 32, 38 

 Buchanan, on rogue elephants, 



49 «• 

 Buffalo, double stomach of, 63 

 Buffon. See Bles 



