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Index. 



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JAR 



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69 



AIRY elephants, 159 n. 

 Hardy, Colonel, story of. 



Haroun, Alraschid, sends an ele- 

 phant to Charlemagne, 35 



RRISON, Dr., on the anatomy 

 of the elephant, 26 «., 57 «., 

 60, 61 



— on the structure of the head, 79 



— on the ear of the elephant, 167 

 ffasfisilpe, a Singhalese work on 



elephants, I7«., 21 

 Hawkus. See Hendoo, 155 

 Head, wound in, fatal, 79 



— section of, 80 



— this fact noticed by Pliny, 79 n. 

 Hearing. See Ear 



Heber, Bishop, describes a dimi- 

 nutive species of elephant, 159 '/. 

 Hedges, dreaded by elephants, 67 

 Height, exaggerated estimates of, 



in elephants, 30 

 Hendoo, used by the mahout, 155 

 Herd,' the term described as ap- 

 plied to the elephant, 45 



— similarity of features in, 45 



— submissive to one leader, 50 



— their conventional association 

 and attachment, 45 



Herodotus, account of the anti- 

 pathy of the elephant to the 

 camel, 13 



— veneration for white horses and 

 white oxen, 23 



Himalayas, elephant paths on, 43 

 Hippopotamus, solitary indivi- 

 duals of, 49 

 Hodgson, Mr. B. H., his explo- 



i-ations in Nepal, ix. 

 Hog, double stomach of, 58 

 Holland, Dr., on the physiology 



of tusks, 1 7 n. 

 Home, Sir Everard, on the 

 double stomach of the elephant, 



58 



— on the ear of the elephant, 1 66, 

 167 



Home, Randal, his heraldry of 

 the elephant, 38 



Hooker, Dr., elephants in the 

 Himalayas, 43 



Horn. See Rogue, 47, 72 



Horace, mentions a white ele- 

 phant at Rome, 24 



Horse, alleged antipathy of the 

 elephant to, 12 



— instances in disproof of this, 13 



— killed by a trained elephant, 13 



— anecdote of the meeting of a 

 horse and an elephant, 19 



— structure of the shoulder joint, 

 41 



TDLENESS, love of, in tame 

 X elephants, 165 

 Indian elephant supposed to differ 

 from that of Sumatra, vi. 



— comparative anatomy of, vii. 



— varieties of the same species 

 in, X. 



■ — elephant is dying out in India, 



6//. 

 Indicopleustes [see Cosmas), export 



of elephants, 5 

 Ivory, annual importations of, 6 n. 



— proportion from Ceylon, 6 n. 



— of Ceylon preferred in China, 

 6 ;/. 



- — African preferred in Europe, 

 6 n. 



— weight of, in various countries, 

 8;/. 



— immense African tusks at Goa, 

 8;/. 



— how formed. See Dentine, 173 



JAFFNA, instinct shown by 

 elephants at, 64 



Jardine, Sir William, fallacy as 

 to elephants shedding tusks, 

 7«. 



