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Index. 



MAR 



PHI 



Marfil, Palma de, the vegetable 



ivory palm, 4 n. 

 Marfim, Portuguese for ivory, 4 n. 

 Massoudi, on the use of the 



elephant in war, 159 n. 

 Matthew Paris, his error as to 



the joints of the elephant, 36 

 Matura, elephants shipped from 



for India, 103 

 Mercer, Mr. Groeme, story of a 



fight between two elephants, 16 

 Metatarsus, shortness of, enables 



the elephant to climb,, 43 

 MOLYNEUX, his anatomy of the 



elephant, 56 

 Moormen of Ceylon, 97. Sec 



Panickeas. 

 Morris, Mr., conducts the corral 



in 1847, 109 

 Moulin, A., his letter to Sir 



William Petty, 56 «. 

 ' ' Miidda. " &^ " Must, " 1 1 

 Muddy water not objected to by 



elephants, 55 

 Music, elephants' love of, 168 

 " Must," term explained, II 



NOUAER, size of African ivory 

 at, 8 n. 

 Natives of Ceylon, their narra- 

 tives of accidents and adventures 

 with elephants, 71 

 Negombo, adventures with ele- 

 phants at, 75 

 Nepal-root, a poison for elephants, 



6 

 Nepal, mode of capturing ele- 

 phants in, 97 

 Nile, White, enormous tusks got 

 near, 8 «. See Baker, Sir 

 Samuel 

 Noises produced by elephants, 27 

 Noosers. &^ Cooroowe, 122 

 — their extraordinary courage, 136 

 Noosing elephants, as practised by 

 the Panickeas, 99 



Noosing in a corral, operation 



described, 122, 124 

 Numidia, Medal of, 156 n. 



OLFACTORY lobes, 26 «. 

 Optic nerve in the ele- 

 phant, 26 11. 

 Osteology of the elephant. See 



Teeth, vi. x. 

 Owen, Prof , on the anatomy of the 



elephant, 56 «., 59, 60, 62 

 — on the formation of ivory, 1 73 



PAIN, patient endurance of, 

 168 

 Pallegoix, on the white elephant, 

 23 «. 



— on sounds produced by ele- 

 phants, 30 n. 



Palma de marfil, the vegetable 



ivory palm, 4 n. 

 Panickeas, their marvellous skill 



as trackers, 97 



— their singidar courage, 79 



— their method of capturing wild 

 elephants, 99 



— mode of taming after capture, 

 loi 



— their method of conducting 

 ■ the captives to the coast, loi 

 Paris. See Matthew Paris. 

 Peccary, double stomach of, 58 

 Petherick, his account of large 



ivoiy in Soudan, 8 n. 

 Phile, his error as to the joints of 

 the elephant, 35 



— difficulty of the elephant in 

 rising, 30 



■ — elephant does not object to 

 muddy water, 55 ;/. 



— thinks the elephant hates the 

 pig, 117 «. 



— on elephants as executioners, 

 154 n. 



— elephant's love of music, i68«. 



