INDEX. 



501 



Dyak. hut at a farm, 387 



indolence, 423, 440 



omen birds, 4"2(3, 433 



omens in general, 433 



pantomime, 393, 468 



snake eaten by a, 388 



stature, 4.59-4(50 



tooth-plates, 393 



villages, 355, 373, 410, 434. 448, 449 

 Dyaks, Hill, see Hill Dyaks 



Mongol, sfe Mongol Dj-aks 

 Dyaks of Borneo, ancestry of, 444 



classification, 445 



general description of, 445 



of Sarawak, character of, 435 



decrease of, 343 



demonstrative character of, 431, 439 



former oppression of, 342-o43 



present condition of, 344 

 Dyaks, Sea, ?'i(Ie Sea Dyaks 

 Dysentery, 120, 174 



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Ear, mutilation of, by Karder women, 

 129 



ornaments of the Dyaks, 457, 462 

 Echini, collecting, at Colombo, 426 



how to clean and preserve, 247 

 Eggs of the gavial, 45 



of the salt-water crocodile, 442 



of the scavenger vulture, 61 

 Egret, 60, 267, 307 

 Ekka, a ride in an, 69 

 Eleotris marmorata, 397 

 Elephant, the Indian, compared with 

 African, 219 



age of, 223 



body, character of, 134 



brain, position of, 133 



brain, difficulty of hitting, 134 



breeding in captivity, 222 



castes of, recoijnized, 226 



cost of keeping, 232 



death of a tusker. 163, 301, 333 



destruction of. 230. 221 



dimensions of a tusker, 203 



doings of a mad, 233 



dwasala class of, 227 



export duty in Ceylon on, 238 



food of a captive, 2;S1 



geographical distribution of, 218 



gestation, period of, 223 



growth, 2.'3-'235 



height of male and female, 324 



hunters hunted by, 147 



in Borneo, 220 



in Ceylon, 219 



in processions, 227 



in Selangore, 310, 334 



in Sumatra, 220 



intelligence of, wonderful, 229 



koomeriah class, 227 



meerga class, 227 



mental capacity of, 229 



mischievousness of, 161-163, 331 



Elephant, the Indian, moral character, 

 229 



" must " in, 232 



prices of, in India and America, 228 



rogue, character of a, 234 



rogue, killed by Mr. Theobald, 134 



sagacity in manobuvring, 148 



sight, dulness of. 137 



skinning and preserving skin of, 203- 

 203, 20.=), 209, 213, 214, 217 



skull, form and structure of, 133 



stealthiiiess in retreating, 148 



swimming power of, 234 



table of growth, 225 



trumpeting, notes sounded in, 136 



tusks of African and Indian, 225 



uses of, in India, 22(i, 228 



vulnerable points of, 135 



work of, in a timber forest, 230 



young, 140-141, 223 

 Elephant, the African, 319 



mode of hunting, 133 

 Elephant catching, 220 



keddah operations in, 221 



various methods of, 222 

 Elephant hunting, African method of, 133 



character of, 131 



failures in, 112, 138, 149, 199 



gun for, 137 



Indian method of, 133 



in Selangore, 320-325 



ludicrous adventure in, 334 



success in, 163, 201, 322, 



tables turned in, 149 



under difficulties, 199-201 

 Elephant Pass, 280 

 Elephants, attacking, 138 



first herd of wild. 111 



law protecting, 126 



permit to kill, 127, 197 



stampede of, 138 



tracking up a herd of, 136 

 Elephas Indicus, see Elephant, the In. 

 dian 



primogenius, 218 

 Elettaria cardamom um, 138 

 Elevation of the Animallais, 125 



of the Neilgherries, 94 



of the Wainaad, 106 

 Emerson, Joseph, 275 

 Emyda Ceylonensis, 248 

 Emys trijuga, 248, 310 

 English institutions, 339 

 Eng Quee, Mr.. 350, 3.54, 369, 384 

 Eonycteris spilla, 326 

 Esacus recurvirostris .307 

 Establishment, Ward's Natural Science, 



2, 193, 197, 217 

 Etawah, 35 



population of, 70 

 Ethnological specimens, 426, 439 

 Everett, Mr. A. Hart, 477, 478 

 Everett, Mr. H. H., 482 

 Evolution, theories of social, at fault, 474 

 Exaggeration, sinful ter.dency to, 33 

 Exterior of Dyak long-house, 355 



