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 n.
  a rogue, what, 114.
  savage attacks of rogues, 116.
  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 elephants, 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 demeanour, 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 n. 
Elephants, capricious disposition of, 215.
  first labour intrusted to them, 217.
  his comprehension of his duties, 218.
  exaggeration of his strength in uprooting trees, 218 n. 
  Mahouts and their duties, 221. 
  Their cry of urre! 222 n.
  elephant’s sense of musical notes, 223.
  its endurance of pain, 224.
  diseases in captivity, 225.
  subject to tooth-ache, 227.
  questionable economy of keeping trained elephants for labour, 229.
  their cost, 230.
  their food, 230 n.
  fallacy of their alleged reluctance to