X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



ARMS BEST SUITED FOR LION-SHOOTING THE LION'S RAGE AT A 

 BULLET TENACITY OP LIFE WOUNDS INFLICTED BY A DYING 

 LION SAFEGUARDS CAPE-HORSES REFLECTIONS ON LION- 

 HUNTINGSIGNS OF THE LION'S WRATH ALLEGED COWARDICE 

 THE ALGERINE LION 215 



THE ELEPHANT. 



CHAPTER I. 



COUNTRIES IN WHICH THE ELEPHANT IS FOUND TWO VARIETIES 

 DIFFERENCE OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN SPECIES COLOUR, 

 HEIGHT, AND WEIGHT THE PROBOSCIS THE TUSKS CARE WITH 

 WHICH THE ELEPHANT GUARDS ITS TRUNK DENTITION MOVE- 

 MENTS AND PACE WHEELING ABOUT ENORMOUS WEIGHT OF 

 THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT THE SPOOR 239 



CHAPTER II. 



VOICE OF THE ELEPHANT SENSES HEARING, SIGHT, AND SMELL 

 NATURAL DISPOSITION MUTUAL AFFECTION CARRYING 

 WATER TO A WOUNDED COMRADE SAGACITY FLESH OF THE 

 ELEPHANT THE FOOT PROBOSCIS AND FAT HIDE AND EAR 

 IVORY LONGEVITY 200 



CHAPTER III. 



BREEDING HABITS PERIOD OF GESTATION THE CALF SIZE OF 

 THE YOUNG ELEPHANT ITS GROWTH MATERNAL AND FILIAL 

 AFFECTION TOUCHING STORY CALF OF THE RHINOCEROS 

 INCAPABLE OF DOMESTICATION PET ELEPHANTS EMPLOY- 

 MENT OF TIIK ELEPHANT IN WAR . 27*) 



