Elephants and their friends, 192. at work, 201. Asiatic, hunting, 97. as saddle-beasts, 206. as battering-rams, 202. as executioners, 199. as nurses, 202. a team of, 209. armor of, in the Mogul Empire, 268. Ceylon, age of, 146. Ceylon, 140 years old, 147. curiosity of, 143, 161. damage to crops by, 156. expense of, 97. expense of keeping, 96. extraordinary strength of, 209. fictions about, 309. fishing by, 210. flesh esteemed, 176. gestation of, 10. great caution of, 264. habits and ways of, 12. harnessed, 205. hauling ships, 209. hauling timber, 204. herds of, captured in Ceylon, 144. howdahs for, 207. hunting African, 164. hunting, account by Selous, 164. hunting, account by Livingstone, 168. hunting, narrow escapes, 170. hunting, with swords, 172. hunting, weapons used in, 99. hunting, by Sanderson, 103. in battles, 290, 291, 293, 297, 299, 301. large ones shot, 105. measurement of, 19, 115, 311. memory of, 162. methods of mounting, 208. _must_, or mad, 151. natural history of, 1. obedience of, 31. of Julius Cæsar, 307. of Scipio, 306. of Artaxerxes, 308. of Alexander, 308. of Kublai Khan, 274. “playing possum,” 31. ploughing, 204. present of, to the President of the United States, by King of Siam, 211. revenge of, 31. riding, their speed, 207. rogue, 148. rogue, persons killed by, 149. rogue, temporary, 162. Shakspeare on, 313, 315. shooting, 99. skeletons of, 5, 311, 314. so-called _solitaries_, 152. stories of, by Pliny, 309. stories of, by Ælian, 309. teeth of, 3, 311. training of, 145. types of, 14, 139. value of, 94. war, of modern Asia, 255, 265. war, of Alexander the Great, 277. Elephants war, of the Romans, 296. wild, the attack by, 98. Elephas Africanus, African elephant, 1. Elephas Americana, a tooth of, 310. Elephas Indicus, Indian or Asiatic elephant, 1. Elephanta, Island of, 231. Elephantarch, governor of elephants, 289. Fictions, proboscidian, 309. Gejjhemp, a portion of an elephant battle-armor, 269. “Geraldine,” a famous elephant, 19. “Goliath,” 314. Grand Khan, elephant hunt of the, 200. Grote, F., & Co., 219. “Gunesh,” a rogue elephant, 158. Hamilton, Col. Douglass, 109, 112. Hamran Arabs, skilled elephant fighters, 171. Hannibal’s elephant in Spain, 296. elephants crossing the Po, 301. Hannibal, passage of his war elephants over the Pyrenees, 297. war elephants of, 297, 308. his elephants in Africa, 304. Hardy, Col., 161. Hartenfels, author, on elephant, 4. Height of elephants, fictions about, 310. Heraclear, 293. Herald, New York, on “Jumbo,” 65, 117. Hindostan, the crown of, 268. Holland, white elephant in, 132. Home, Sir Everard, 17.