Index. 



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Elephant, will ere long be extinct 

 in India, 6 ;/. 



— alleged enmity to man, and 

 other animals, 10 



— signs of perfection in. See 

 Hastisilpe, 21 



— natural colour of the skin, 22 



— loves shade, 25 



— scene, by night while bathing, 

 52 



— stomach of the elephant double, 

 56 



— the Ceylon elephant supposed 

 to exceed that of India in saga- 

 city, 152 



Elephant, the first brought to 



Greece by Antipater, 150 

 Elephant shooting. See Shooting 

 e'Ae'cpas signified not the elephant, 

 but its ivory, 4 n. 



— Benary's derivation of the word, 

 66 



Elephas Sumatranus. See Suma- 

 tra, vi. 



— supposed to differ from the ele- 

 phant of India, vii. 



— this theory doubted by Dr. Fal- 

 coner, ix. 



Elk, error of Ceesar in saying that 



the "alee " has no joints, 33 

 Engliskinan, Voyage of a certain, 



story of an elephant killing a 



horse, 13 ti. 

 Evelyn, John, refutes the fallacy 



that the elephant has no joints, 



33 

 Eye of the elephant small, 26, ib. ;/. 



— its accuracy when engaged in 

 working, 261 



FAIRHOLME on the elephant, 

 159 n. 

 Falconer, Dr., doubts the alleged 

 d ifference between the elephants 

 of Sumatra and India, ix. 



— on the height of elephants, 

 31 n. 



Fanning themselves, habit of, 84 



— extreme grace of the movement, 

 136 



— in the corral, 135 

 Feet, habit of swinging, 84 



— not, as supposed, a substitute for 

 exercise, 85 



Females in a herd, numerous, 47 

 Fences, elephant's dread of, 65 

 Ftlsben, Danish for ivory, 4 n. 

 Flesh of the elephant coarse, 88 

 Fleurens, on the duration of life 



in the elephant, 177 

 Flies, their mai-vellous faculty of 



discerning carrion, 139 «. 



— account of their hurrying to 

 death-beds, 139 71. 



Food of the elephant when wild, 



63 



— when tamed and trained, 175 

 Foot, a frequent seat of disease, 



170 



— its extreme sensitiveness, 133 



— of the elephant makes good 

 soup, 89 



— twice its circumference equal to 

 the height of the animal, 98 n. 



Forbes, anecdote from his Orien- 

 tal Menwirs, 107 n. 



Forehead of the elephant, wound 

 in, fatal, 80 



Fossil elephant, 159 n. 



Fretz, Gerard, frightful wound, 90 



GADJAH. See Sumatran ele- 

 phant, vi. 



Gallwey, Capt. P. Payne, number 

 of elephants shot by him, 77 n. 



Geological formation of Ceylon, 

 vi. 



" Goondah.'''' See Rogue, 48 



Gooneratne Modliar, his deriva- 

 tion for the word elephant, 5 n. 



GuiLLiM, heraldiy of the ele- 

 phant, 38 n. 



