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Index. 



CRI 



Cripps, Mr., on elephants breed- 

 ing in captivity, 177 



Cruelties in elephant shooting, 77;;. 



Ctesias, fallacy that the elephant 

 has no joints, 33 



Gumming, Mr. Gordon, his cruel 

 experiments on the vital endur- 

 ance of the elephant, 81 n. 



— questionable stories of tcees up- 

 rooted by elephants, 162 ;/.. 



Curiosity, spirit of, strong in the 

 elephant, 67 



— story of Colonel Hardy, 67 

 Cuspis. 6'r<? Hendoo, 156 «. 

 Cuttack, elephant of, x. 



— method of poisoning elephants 

 in, 6 



CuviER, on the comparative saga- 

 city of the elephant, 68 



— on the tusks of elephants, 1 73 



— on duration of life in, 177 



r)AH! DAH! word hateful to 

 •'-^ wild elephant, 100 

 Dakra, a poison for elephants in 



Bengal, 6 

 Darwin, on the burial place of 



llamas and goats, loi n. 

 Davy, Dr. , on endurance of pain 



in the elephant, 168 

 — on the spirit of curiosity in the 



elephant, 67 

 Dawson, Capt. , an elephant shot 



by, dies standing, 39 

 De Blainville, on the dura- 

 tion of life in the elephant, 177 

 De Bry, story of a horse killed hy 



a trained elephant, 13 

 Dead elephant, body rarely found, 



179 

 Deafness occasionalin elephants, 30 

 Death feigned by an elephant, 70 

 Decoy elephants, their conduct, 



119, 123, 134 

 DSfmses. Sec Tusks, 9 

 Dekkan, elephant of the, xi. 



ELE 



De Lima, General, immense tusks 

 got by, in Africa, 8 ;/. 



Denham, Major, on the height 

 of an African elephant, 3 1 



Denman, Major, power of ele- 

 phant to overthrow trees, 162 n. 



Descending acclivities, mode of, 44 



Dentine, 173. Sec Ivory 



DiCUiL, description of the ele- 

 phant of Charlemagne, 35 



Dinka, size of African ivory at, S, 



12 



DiODORUS SicULUS, on the saga- 

 city of the Indian elephant, 150 

 Dogs, elephants impatient of, 14 



— Major Skinner's dog, kept off 

 the elephants by its bark, 1 5 



— superior in sagacity to the ele- 

 phant, 69 



Donne, his error as to the joints 



of the elephant, 38 

 Dublin, elephant burnt to death, 



26 71. 



"Duipa," an Indian name of the 

 elephant, its signification, 62 n. 



Dust, habit of throwing it over 

 themselves, 133 



Dutch possessions in India, vi. 

 Sec Temminck 



— elephant hunts conducted by, 

 95 



EAR, formation of, 167 

 — love of music, 168 n. 



— Sir EvERARD Home, on hearing 

 in the elephant, 167 



Ebony, logs piled by elephants, 



164 

 " Eleph," Hebrew, conjectured to 



be the root of elepha ■, 4 n. 

 '■'■Elephant,'''' derivation of the 



word, 4 ;/. 



— conjectures of Pictet, Bochart, 

 Pott, and Benary, 4 71. 



— great numbers in Ceylon, 5 



