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hairs, in which respect it reminds one rather of the African than the 
Indian Elephant, and, lastly, that the Sumatran animal is more re¬ 
markable for its intellectual development than the Indian.* 
“ The lastf mentioned observation agrees, in a remarkable way,” 
continues Prof. Schlegel, “ with what Heer Diard has lately written 
concerning the Elephant of Ceylon. lie says, on this matter,—“ T 
Elephant de Ceylan se distingue de celui des Indes par une aptitude 
d’intelligence instinctive, celle de facile educabilite: auss'i ces Ele- 
phans de Ceylan, de tout temps recherclies par les Princes de lTnde 
se trouvent l’etre encore aujourdhui plus qu f aucun outre par les 
Anglais pour les differens services auxquel on les employe. Jai eu 
l’occasion d’observer pleuseurs grandes troupes de ces auimaux et 
une partieulierement, qui avals finie par se laisser prendre dans une 
grande enceinte etablie par les ordres du Gouvernment, qui a cette 
epoque ou la guerre de l’lnde etait encore loin d’etre termince faisait 
tout ce qu’il est possible pour recruiter un certain nombre de ces 
animaux afm de les deriger vers le Bengale.” 
From my own familiar observation of the intelligence of tame Ele¬ 
phants, whether in Lower Bengal, Oudh, or Burma, I am inclined to 
doubt exceedingly the alleged fact of the superior qualities, in this 
respect, of the Cinghalese Elephant. Individual differences occur, no 
doubt, as in other animals ; and no slight diversity of character. I also 
do not remember that any Elephants arrived at Calcutta from Ceylon 
during the period of the repression of the Indian mutinies ; though 
some may have been sent, likely enough, from that island to Madras. 
The grand importation, at that time, of Elephants into Calcutta was 
from the ports of Rangoon and Moulmein ; and the animals in ques¬ 
tion were brought thither from the Shan states beyond the British 
boundary. 
The assigned habitat of Calcutta for a tame Elephant may be 
estimated from the following extract:— 
Col. A. P. Phayre, now Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 
remarks, in his ‘ Report on the Administration of the Province of 
Pegu’ during 1858-9, that—“ Not less than one thousand and thirty- 
four (1,034) Elephants have been shipped from Rangoon and Moul¬ 
mein, for the Madras coast and Bengal, during the period extending 
* It may here be noticed that Prof. Schlegel has reason to suspect the exist¬ 
ence ol‘ more than one species of African Elephant, 
