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INDEX. 
Donne, on the elephant, 105. 
Doras, fish of Guiana, 347. 
Dragon-flies, 411. See Insects. 
Dugong, 68, 69. 
abundant at Manaar, 69. 
i origin of the fable of the mermaid, 
69. 
Dutch belief in the mermaid, 70. 
Eagles, 245. See Birds. 
Edentata, 46, 74. 
Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, his account 
of musk, 32 n. 
Eels, 337, 347 n. 
Eginhard, life of Charlemagne, 103. 
Elephant, 64, 75. 
- — Sumatran species, 64. 
points of distinction, 65. 
those of Ceylon extolled, 209. 
elephants on Adam's Peak, 109. 
numbers in Ceylon, 76. 
EkiQeis, derivation of the word, 76 n. 
antiquity of the trade in, 77. 
— numbers diminishing, 77. 
— mode of poisoning, 77 n. 
tusks and their uses, 78. 
— disposition gentle, 81. 
accidents from, 81. 
antipathy to other animals, 82 ; to the 
horse, 83. 
jealousy of each other, 86. 
mode of attacking man, 87. 
anecdote of a tame elephant, 89. 
• African elephant differs from that of 
Ceylon, 64. 
skin, 91. 
white elephant, 92. 
love of shade, 94. 
r— water, not heat, essential to them, 94. 
i sight limited— smell acute, 95. 
■ anatomy of the brain, 95. 
i power of smell, 96. 
sounds uttered by, 96. 
subject to deafness, 98. 
exaggeration as to size, 98. 
source of this mistake, 98 n. 
stealthy motions, 100. 
error as to the elephant's want of joints, 
100. 
probable origin of this mistake, 106. 
mode of lying down, 107. 
ability to climb acclivities, 108. 
mode of descending a mountain, 110. 
a herd is a family, 111. 
attachment to young, 112. 
young suckled by all the females in a 
herd, 113. 
« theory of this, according to White, 
113 «. 
a rogue, what, 114. 
- — savage attacks of rogues, 116. 
Elephants, character of the rogues, 116, 
147. 
habits of the herd, 117. 
anecdote of, 118. 
elephant's mode of drinking, 120. 
their method of swimming, 121. 
wells sunk by, 122. 
receptacle in the stomach, 122. 
stomach, anatomy of, 124. 
food of the elephant, 129. 
instinct in search of food, 130. 
dread of fences, 131. 
their caution exaggerated, 132. 
spirit of curiosity in elephants, 132. 
anecdote of Col. Hardy, 132, 133. 
sagacity in freedom over-estimated, 
134. 
leave the forests during thunder, 134. 
cunning, feign death, 135. 
stories of encounters with wild ele- 
phants, 136. 
sporting, numbers shot, 142. 
butchery by expert shots, 142 n. 
fatal spots in the head, 144, 145. 
peculiar actions of elephants, 148, 
love of retirement, 149. 
elephant-trackers, 150. 
herd charging, 151. 
carcase useless, 153. 
remarkable recovery from a wound, 
154. See Lieut. Fretz. 
mode of taking in India, 157-162. 
height measured by the circumference 
of the foot, 159. 
mode of shipping elephants at Manaar, 
162. 
mode of shipping elephants at Galle, in. 
1701, 163 n. 
keddah for taking elephants in Bengal, 
164. 
a corral (kraal) described, 165, 166. 
— derivation of the word corral, 165 n. 
corral, its construction, 167, 172. 
corral, driving in the elephants, 173. 
the capture, 177. 
mode of securing, 181. 
— the " cooroowe," or noosers, 181. 
tame elephants, their conduct, 182, 
191. 
captives, their resistance and demea- 
nour, 184. 
dread of white rods, 186. 
their contortions, 190 
— a young one, 206. 
conduct in captivity, 207. 
mode of training, 211. 
— their employment in ancient warfare, 
207. 
superiority of Ceylon, a fallacy, 209. 
. ■ elephant driver's crook (hendoo), 212. 
hairy elephants in Ceylon, 215 ». 
