[18] _Menageries_, _etc._: “The Elephant,” ch. iii. In the Anglo-Saxon _Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem_, which has been printed by COCKAYNE in his _Narratiunculæ Anglice conscriptæ_, the belief in the alleged antipathy of the elephant to swine is embodied in the text and is thus rendered in the Latin version: “Pervenimus demum ad silvas Indorum ultimas; ubi cum castra collocavissemus, ceperamus velle epulari sub nocte hora xi; cum subito pabulatores lignatoresque exanimes nunciabant, ut celeriter arma caperemus, venire e silvis elephantorum immensas greges ad expugnanda castra. Imperavi ergo Thessalicis equitibus ut ascenderent equos, _secumque tollerent sues_, quorum grunnitus timere bestias noveram, et occurrere quam primum elephantis jussi ... nec mora trepidantes elephanti conversi sunt. Quieta nox fuit usque ad lucem.” (P. 58.) Another allusion to the same legendary incident will be found in the _Lyfe of Alisaunder_, one of the most ancient English romances, reprinted by WEBER in his _Metrical Romances of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries_. “Forth went the kyng thennes with hy; Of the forme-ward he herd grete cry For hy weren assailed of olifauntz. The kyng highed, and his sergeauntz: Ac, so I fynde on the booke, By Porus conseil _hogges hy took_ _And beten them so they shrightte_: The olifauntz away hem dightte; For hy ne have so mychel drade Of nothing as of hogges grade.” WEBER, vol. i. p. 237. [19] This peculiarity was noticed by the ancients, and is recorded by Herodotus: κάμηλον ἵππος φοβέεται, καὶ οὐκ ἀνέχεται οὔτε τὴν ἰδέην αὐτῆς ὁρέων οὔτε τὴν ὀδμὴν ὀσφραινόμενος. (Herod. i. 80.) Camels have long been bred by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, at his establishment near Pisa, and even there the same instinctive dislike to them is manifested by the horse, which it is necessary to train and accustom to their presence in order to avoid accidents. Mr. BRODERIP mentions, that, “when the precaution of such training has not been adopted, the sudden and dangerous terror with which a horse is seized in coming unexpectedly upon one of them is excessive.”—_Note-book of a Naturalist_, ch. iv. p. 113. [20] Major ROGERS was many years the chief civil officer of the Ceylon Government in the district of Ouvah, where he was killed by lightning, 1845. [21] “Quidam etiam cum equis silvestribus pugnant. Sæpe unus elephas cum sex equis committitur; atque ipse adeo interfui cum unus elephas duos equos cum primo impetu protinus prosternerit;—injecta enim jugulis ipsorum longa proboscide, ad se protractos, dentibus porro comminuit ac protrivit.” (_Angli cujusdam in Cambayam navigatio._ DE BRY, _Coll._ _etc._ vol. iii. ch. xvi. p. 31.)