CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTEK XXXIV. 



THE ELEPHANT. 



Love of Solitude, and Pusillanimity — Miraculous Escape of an English Officer — 

 Sagacity of the Elephant in ascending Hills — Organisation of the Stomach — 

 The Elephant's Trunk — Use of the Tusks still Probmatical — The Rogue- 

 ISephant — Sagacity of the Elephant — The African Elephant — Tamed in 

 Ancient Times— South African Elephant-Hunting — Hair -Breadth Escapes — 

 Abyssinian Elephant-Hunters — Cutting up of an Elephant — The Asiatic 

 Elephant — Vast Numbers destroyed in Ceylon — Major Rogers — Elephant- 

 Catchers — Their amazing Dexterity — The Corral — Decoy Elephants — Their 

 astonishing Sagacity — Great Mortality among the Captured Elephants — Their 

 Services Page 431 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



TEOPICAL FELID^. 



The Lion — Conflicts with Travellers on Mount Atlas — The Lion and the Hotten- 

 tat — A Lion taken in — Narrow Escapes of Andersson and Dr. Livingstone — 

 Lion-Hunting by the Arabs of the Atlas— By the Bushmen — The Asiatic Lion 

 — The Lion and the Dog — The Tiger — The Javanese Jungle— The Peacock — 

 Wide Northern Range of the Tiger — Tiger-Hunting in India — Miraculous 

 Escape of an English Sportsman — Animals announcing the Tiger's Presence — 

 Turtle-Hunting of the Tiger on the Coasts of Java — The Panther and the Leo- 

 pard — The Leopard attracted by the Smell of Small-pox — The Cheetah — 

 The Jaguar — The Puma — The smaller American Felidae —The Hyaena — Fables 

 told of these abject Animals — The Striped Hysena — The Spotted Hyaena — The 

 Brown Hysena 446 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



THE AUSTEALIAN RACE. 



Physical Conformation of the Australians — Their Low State of Civilisation — 

 Their Superstitions — Their Wars — Singing and Dancing — The Corrobory — 

 Division of the Nation into Great Families — Rules Regulating the property of 

 Land and the Distribution of Food— Skill in Hunting the Kangaroo and the 

 Opossum — Feasting on a Whale — Moral Qualities and Intelligence of the 

 Australians 466 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



THE SLOTH. 



Miserable Aspect of the Sloth — His Beautiful Organisation for his Peculiar Mode 

 of Life — His Rapid Movements in the Trees — His Means of Defence — His 

 Tenacity of Life— Fable about the Sloth refuted— The Ai— The Unau— The 

 Mylodon Robustus . 477 



