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Index. 



TUS 



YUL 



Tusks, female elephant has none, 

 in Ceylon, 9 



— not ordinarily used as weapons 

 of offence, 9 



— fight between an elephant and 

 two bulls, at Saragossa, 10 71. 



— fight of two elephants with 

 their tusks, lO 



— story in Maccabees of Jews killed 

 by elephants, 16 n. 



— what is their use, 1 7, 1 7 n. 



— abnormal varieties in shape, 

 17 n. 



Tytler, Mr. , story of curiosity in 

 elephants, 67 n. 



VALENTYN, his account of 

 shipping elephants for India 

 from Ceylon, 103 

 Vegetable ivory palm, 4 ;;. 

 Vulgar Errors. See Sir Thomas 

 Browne, 32 



WATER, love of the ele- 

 phant for, 4 n. 



— attempt to derive the word ele- 

 phant from, 4 ;/. 



— receptacle for, in the stomach, 



— quantities withdrawn by the 

 ti'unk in the corral, 133 



Weber's Metrical Romance of the 

 thirteenth century, 12 ;/. 



Wells, dug by elephants, 54 

 White elephant ; a lusus naturoe, 



23 . ^ 



— exhibited in Holland in 1633, 24 



— mentioned by Horace at Rome 

 ib. 



White, Gilbert, of Selbome, 

 on the affection of animals to 

 the young of others, 46 n. 



Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, on 

 the knowledge of the elephant 

 in ancient Egypt, 152 n. 



White oxen worshipped in Eg>'pl, 



23 

 Wolf, his strange adventures m 

 Ceylon, 31 n., 48, 105 n. 



— on the capture of wild ele- 

 phants, 96 n. 



■ — on the height of the elephant, 



31 



Wolves suckling children, 46 n. 

 Wound of Lieut. Fretz, 90 

 Wright's Rcliqtdce Aiitiquce, 36 



YOUNG, affection for, 47 

 Young elephants, their con- 

 duct when captured, 137 

 — their tricks in captivity, 138, 



148 

 Yule, Colonel, on the liability of 

 the elephant to sudden death, 

 160 11. 



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