Index. 



195 



PHI 



RON 



Phillipe, on the supposed supe- 

 riority of the Ceylon to the Indiaai 

 elephant, 152 



Physiologiis. See Theroaldus, 

 36 



PiCTET, Prof., his essay on the 

 derivation of the word elephant, 

 4 n. 



Pigs, antipathy of the elephant to. 

 See Swine, 14 



— spoil the capture at a corral, 

 116 



Pingo, 71 ;/. 



Pit-falls, elephants surprised in, 



— objections to, 96 



Pliny, his fallacy as to the ele- 

 phant shedding his tusks, 7 n. 



— as to the antipathy of the ele- 

 phant to other animals, 15 



— error as to the joints of the ele- 

 phant, 32 



— the maehlis, 33 



— terror of the elephant for white 

 rods, 128 



— mode of taming it, 151 



— belief that the elephant has two 

 hearts, 160 



Poison for destroying elephants in 



Bengal, 6 

 PoLYHiSTOR. See SoLiNUS, 35 

 Ponnekella. See Mahout, 122 

 Portuguese, elephant hunts con- 

 ducted by, 95 



— origin of the word corral, 105 

 Pott, conjecture as to the deriva- 

 tion of the word "elephant," 

 4 n. 



Pringle, on power of elephant to 

 uproot trees, 162 n. 



Provencal song-writers, errors as 

 to the elephant, 37 



Pseudodoxia Epidemica. See Sir 

 Thomas Browne. 



Ptolemy Philopater, employs ele- 

 phant to kill Jewish martyrs, 

 16 «. 



Punishments for tame elephants, 



Puswael, a gigantic bean, 1 10 

 Pyrard, on the supposed supe- 

 riority of the elephant of Cey- 

 lon to that of India, 152 

 Pyrrhus, his elephants, 4 «., 150 



RAIN, coming of foreseen by 

 the elephant, 69 

 Raja-Kariya, no. &^ Ripon. 

 Ramgur, method of poisoning ele- 

 phants in, 6 

 Ranghani, the nooser, 123 



— his prowess and success, 127 

 Rate-mahat-meyas, encourage the 



taking of elephants in corrals, 

 III 



Reinaud, on the use of the ele- 

 phant in war, 154 n. 



Repose, peaceful, of the elephant, 

 84 



Retirement, love of, 85 



Rhinoceros, alleged antipathy be- 

 tween and the elephant, 9 



Ripon, Earl of, abolishes raja- 

 kariya, no 



Rise, difficulty of the elejohant to, 

 38, 39 



Rogers, Major, stoiy of his horse 

 and the elephants, 13 «. 



— elephant shot by him falls on 

 its knees, 39 



— number killed by him, 77 ;/. 

 Rogue elephant, their origin and 



habits, 46 



— their vice and depredations, 49, 

 50, 82 «. 



— captured in a corral, 138 



— his death, 138 



Rome, performance of elephants, 



168;/., 183 

 Ronkedor. See Rogue, 47 11. 

 Ronquedue. See Rogue, ib. 



