Index. 



197 



SUR 



Surgical operations on elephants, 

 168 



Swimming, action of the elephant 

 in, 55 



Swine, alleged antipathy of ele- 

 phant to, II, 14 



TAME elephants, their con- 

 duct in the corral, 134. See 

 Decoys 



— value of their labour 162, 174 



— levelling trees, 163 



— piling timber, 164 



— laziness, 165 



— punishments, 165 



— attachment to attendants, 166 



— medical treatment, 168, 170 



— obedience to orders, 169 



— causes of death in captivity, 

 171 



— weight of draught, 1 74 



— cost of feeding a tame elephant, 



175 



— favourite food, 175 



Tavernier, on the supposed su- 

 periority of the elephant of Cey- 

 lon, 153 «. 



Teeth of the Sumatran elephant, 



vi. 

 Temminck's Dutch Possessions in 



India, vi. 



— account of Sumatran elephant, 

 viii. 



Theroaldus, Physiologus, en-or 

 in, as to the joints of the ele- 

 phant, 36 



Thevenot, on the supposed su- 

 periority of the Ceylon elephant 

 to that of India, 1 52 



Thomson, error in his Seasons, 

 as to the joints of the elephant, 



.38 

 Timber, how dragged by elephants, 

 161 «., 162 



— wonderful skill in piling of, 1 64 

 Tipperah, elephant of, x. 



TUS 



Tissaweva. &t> Anarajapoora, 65 



Tooth-ache, 172 



Training elephants, 150, &c. 



— first employments, 161 



— males more unmanageable than 

 females, 158 



— process of, 1 50 



— varieties of disposition, 159 

 Trees, manner ni which elephants 



level them, 146 



— stories of overthrowing exagge- 

 rated, 162 



Tronipe. See Trunk 



Tiimipeting, peculiar sound of, 144 



Trunk, so called from " ti-ump,"28 



— Aristotle compares the sound 

 to a trampet, ib. 



— strange drawings of, in the 

 fifteenth century, 28 ;/. 



Tushes, their use to the elephant, 7 



— they, and not the tusks, shed, 

 7«. 



Tuskers, influence of in the herd, 



5° . 

 ■ — their efficiency in a corral, 136 

 Tusks, rare in the Ceylon ele- 

 phant, 6 



— in Africa both male and female 

 have them, 6 



— average weight of those im- 

 ported, 60 cv.'t. , 6 n. 



— in Ceylon are light, owing 

 to the animals being shot young, 

 6 «. , 8 



— a favourite treasure in Buddhist 

 temples, 6 «. , 8 



— both sexes have, in India and 

 Africa, 6 «. , 8 



— fallacy as to the elephant shed- 

 ding his tusks, 7 



— conjecture as to the presence 

 of, in African elephant, and their 

 absence in that of India and Cey- 

 lon, 7 



— weight in various countries, 8 n. 



— instance of a diseased one, 8 n. 

 See Brooke, Sir Victor 



