XV1 CONTENTS. 
Attempt to introduce the camel 
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Buffaloes . 
Sporting buffaloes . - 
Peculiar structure of the foot . 
Deer ‘ “ ‘ . 
Meminna . ‘ e ‘ 
Elk i rs : : 
Wild-boar ‘ 
Elephants 
Recent discovery of anew species 
Geological speculations as to 
the island of Ceylon . 
Ancient tradition . ‘ 
Opinion of Professor Ansted . 
Peculiarities in Ceylon mam- 
malia , 
The same in Ceylon birds and 
insects 
Temminck’s diseovery of : a new 
species of elephant in Suma- 
tra. * 
Points of distinction between it 
and the elephant of India . 
Professor Pe sesh ae 
Cetacea . 
Whales . . ‘ 
The Dugong ‘ 
Origin of the fable of the mer- 
maid 
Credulity of the Portuguese 7 
Belief of the Dutch 
Testimony of Valentyn 
List of Ceylon mammalia . 
CHAP. II. 
THE ELEPHANT. 
Its Structure. 
Vast uumbers in Ceylon . 
Derivation of the word “elephant” 
(note) 
Antiquity of the trade in elephants 
Numbers now diminishing . 
Mischief done by them to crops . 
Ivory scarce in Ceylon 
Conjectures as to the absence of 
tusks . . . 
Elephant a harmless animal 
Alleged antipathies to other ani- 
mals . . . 
Fights with each other . . 
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The foot its chief weapon . 87 
Use of the tusks in a wild state 
doubtful ‘ . 88 
Anecdote of sagacity in an ele- 
phant at Kandy . : 89 
Difference between African and 
Indian species : 90 
Native ideas of perfection | in an 
elephant . . ‘ - 91 
Blotches on the skin . . 92 
White elephants not unknown in 
Ceylon . 7 : - 93 
CHAP. TI. 
THE ELEPHANT. 
Its Habits. 
Water, but not heat, essential to 
elephants. . » 94 
Sight limited . . . » 95 
Smell acute. : . - 96 
Caution . - é f . ob. 
Hearing, good . . - wd 
Cries of the elephant . - 97 
Trumpeting . . . . 6. 
Booming noise . . . - 98 
Height, exaggerated . 5 - 99 
Facility of stealthy motion - 100 
Ancient delusion as to the joints 
of theleg . ab. 
Its exposure by Sir Thos. Browne ib. 
Its perpetuation by poets and 
others . - 102 
Position of the elephant i in sleep . 105 
An elephant killed on its feet . 107 
Mode of lying down . F - 0 
Its gaitashuflie . e - 108 
Power of climbing mountains . 109 
Facilitated by the joint of the knee 110 
Mode of descending declivities . 111 
A “herd” is a family 3 . 112 
Attachment to their young - 113 
Suckled Ramsincaa A by the fe- 
males . . - 
A “rogue” ” elephant . F - 114 
Their cunning and vice. ~ 115 
Injaries done by them . - tb. 
The leader of a herd a tusker . 117 
Bathing and nocturnal gambols, 
description of a scene by Major 
Skinner : . : - 118 
