Index. 



193 



JAV 



Java, no elephants in the island, vi. 

 Joints, ancient error as to the ele- 

 phant having none, 32 

 — explanation of its origin, 38, 39 



KANDY, the King of, held the 

 killing of an elephant a 

 criminal offence, 5 



— his hunts for capturing ele- 

 phants, 96 



Keddah. See Corral, 104 

 Kimbul-oya. 6"^' Alligator River, 



1 06 

 Knox, his account of executions 



by trained elephants, 1 7 



— on the attachment of the herd to 

 the young, 47 



— his ^accounts of elephant hunts 

 in Kandy 



Kombook tree ; lime extracted 



from the bark, no 

 Korahl. See Corral. 

 Korles, the Seven, elephant hunts 



in, 4 

 Komegalle, beauty of the place, 



107 



— its temple the resort of Budd- 

 hists, loS 



— sacred footstep on the rock, 108 

 Kraal. See Corral 



— derivation of the word, 105 

 Kurahl. See Corral 

 Kurminia-galla, 107 n. 

 Kurunoi-galla. See Komegalle 



LABOUR of tame elephants 

 too costly, 164, 174. See 

 Tame Elephants 



Lampongs. See Sumatra, viii. 



Leap, the elephant unable to, 40 



— anecdote, doubtful, of an ele- 

 phant leaping, 41 



Le Brun, his account of the ele- 

 phants in Ceylon, 5 11. 



Leyden, elephants in Museum, x. 



MAR 



Life, duration of in the elephant, 



.177,. 178 

 Lightning, dreaded by elephants, 



68 

 Lindsay, Mr., adventure with ele- 

 phants, 75 

 Livingstone, Dr., on the solitary 



hippopotamus, 49 

 Llama, double stomach of, 60 ;/. 

 Louis XIV., elephant belonging 



to, 57 

 Loxodon. See Elephas Sumatra- 



nus, vi. ■ 

 Luca bos, Roman term for the 



elephants of Pyrrhus, 4 n. 



JUTACCABEES, story of Jews 



-^^-*- killed by elephants, 16 «., 

 154 «. 



Machlis, an unknown animal, de- 

 scribed by Pliny, 33 



M'Gee, Dr., his account of flies 

 hurrying towards persons dying, 

 139 «. 



Alahmvanse, mention of a white 

 elephant in, 23 



Mahout, elephant driver, the 

 power of discrimination in In- 

 dia, X. 



— conduct of the mahouts in a 

 corral, 129 



— mahouts said to die young, 166 

 Males, proportion of in a herd, 



small, 47 

 Malta, small fossil elephant found 



at, 159 n. 

 Man, elephant has no natural 



antipathy to, 10 



— few deaths occasioned by them, 

 10 



Manaar, singular scene on shipping 

 elephants for India, 102 



— described in A. D. 1701, 102 

 Alarfil, Spanish name for ivory, 



4 «. 



— See Mafir?n, Portuguese, ib. 



