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KNDEX. 



Dutch consult Eaja Singha's passiun for ba^Yk- 



inj;, ii. 48 n. 



mode of procuring cinnamon, ii. 51. 



their trade, ii. 52. 



hatred of tiie Jloors, ii. 53. 



assess import dues according to religion, 



ii. 54. 



discourage cultivation of coffee, ii. 55, 56. 



make education subservient to trade, 



ii. 58. 



officials ill paid and discontented, ih. 



their administrative failure, ib. 



lose money by Ceylon, ii. 59. 



take Kandy, ii. 61. 



exclude strangers, ii. 64 w. 



are attacked by English, ii. 67. 



lose Triucomalie, ih. 



permanent effects of their policy, ii. 69. 



liave bequeathed a system of Koman Dutch 



law, ih. n. 



descendants, their present condition, ii. 71. 



records captured by the British, 1796, 



Introd. xsvii. xxviii. 



since lost, Ih. xxvii. 



may be replaced from duplicates in Hol- 

 land, Ib. xxviii. 

 Dutugaimunu, his victory over Elala, i. 352. 



his public works at Anarajapoora, i. 355. 



his death, i. 358. 



dynasty, great and lower. See Suluwanse 



and JIahawanse. 

 Dysentery, i. 81. See Health. 

 Dyspepsia. See Health. 



Eagles, i. 166, 180. See Birds. 

 Earthquakes almost unknown, i. 16 n. See 

 Volcanic Evidences. 



Spanish errors, i. 1 6 w. 



East India Company, early policy, ii. 47. 

 their government of Ceylon disastrous, 



ii. 71. 

 Eastlake, Sir Charles L., on Early Italian 



Painters, i. 475. 

 Ebony, i. 117. See Trees. 



forests of, ii. 493. 



Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, his error as 



to the size of Ceylon, i. 9, 448 n. 



describes the Gohhs of Ceylon, i. 47 n. 



the trade between Ceylon and Cashmir, 



i. 478, 598. 

 Education, ancient, i. 501. 

 knowledge confined to priests and kings, 



i. 325, 501. 



under Dutch, ii. 70 n. 



" Edward Bonaventure," the first British ship in 



Ceylon, ii. 64. 

 Egypt, its intercourse with Ceylon, i. 554. 

 Eheylapola, his story, ii. 87. 



friglitful execution of his family, ii. 88. 



Elala, his usurpation and character, i. 352. 

 Electricity. See Lightning. 

 Elejliant, i. 159. 



Elephant, elephants on Adam's Peak, ii. 139 ?i. 



killed a Caffre, ii. 259. 



numbers in Ceylon, ii. 272, 273. 



E\e(pas, derivation of the word, ii. 272. 



antiquity of the trade in, ii. 272 n. 



numbers diminishing, ii. 273. 



tusks and their uses, ii. 274. 



disposition gentle, ii. 275. 



accidents from, ii. 275. 



antipathy to other animals, ii. 276. 



jealousy of each other, ii. 276. 



mode of attacking man, ii. 280. 



anecdote of a tame elephant, ii. 282. 



African elephant differs from that of 



Ceylon, ii. 283, 378 ?». 



skin, ii. 28.5. 



white elephant, ii. 285. 



love of shade, ii. 287. 



water, not heat, essential to them, ii. 287. 



sight limited — smell acute, ib. 288. 



anatomy of the brain, ii. 288. 



sounds uttered by, ii. 289. 



exaggeration as to size, ii. 290 n. ' 



stealthy motions, ii. 291. 



error as to the elephant's want of joints, 



ii. 292. 



mode of lying down, ii. 298. 



ability to climb acclivities, ii. 299. 



mode of descending a mountain, ii. 301 n. 



a herd is a family, ii. 301. 



attachment to young, ii. 302. 



a rogue, what, ii. 304, 327. 



character of the rogues, ii. 303. 



habits of the herd, "ii. 305. 



anecdote of, ii. 307. 



wells sunk by, ii. 310, 311. 



receptacle in the stomach, ii. 310. 



stomach, anatomy of, ii. 312. 



food of the elephant, ii. 317. 



dread of fences, ii. 318. 



their caution exaggerated, ii. 319. 



sagacity in freedom over-estimated, ii. 



320. 



leave the forests during thunder, ii. 321. 



cunning, feign death, ii. 321. 



sporting, numbers shot, ii. 323. 



butchery by expert shots, ii. 324. 



fatal spots in the head, ii. 325. 



attitudes of the head, ii. 328. 



love of retirement, ii. 329. 



elephant- trackers, ii. 329, 337, 338. '' 



herd charging, ii. 330. 



carcase useless, ii. 332. 



remarkable recovery froma wound, ii. 333. 



See Lieut. Frctz. 



mode of taking in India, ii. 336, 342. 



height meai:urc;i by the circumference of 



the foot, ii. 337 n. 

 mode of shipnin;?; elephants at Manaar, ii. 



340. 

 mode of shipping elephants at Galle, in 



1701, ii. 340 «. 



