—— error as to the elephant being without joints, 34, 35 _n._ —— says elephants were trained to kill by their knees, 16 _n._ —— on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant, 152 _n._ —— elephant, love of music, 168 _n._ —— elephants performing at Rome, 168 _n._, 183 Aetagalla Rock, legend of, 107 Affection for their young, 47 African elephant teeth different from Indian, vii. —— ribs and vertebræ, viii. 20 —— both sexes have tusks, 6 —— ivory preferred to Ceylon in Europe, 6 _n._ —— conjecture respecting tusks, 7 —— great size of tusks; 300 lbs. and upwards, 7, 8 African elephant is not vulnerable in the forehead, as the Ceylon elephant is, _page_ 81 Age of elephants, 123, 177 —— estimated duration of life in, 177 Airavanta, Sanscrit, origin of the word elephant, 4 _n._ Alce. _See_ Elk, 33 _Alexandri Epistola ad Aristolelem_, 11 Alexander the Great, his Indian expedition, 150 —— coins of, 151 _n._ _Alisaunder_, English romance of, 12 _n._ Allia. _See_ Hora allia, 82. _See_ Rogue Alligator River, elephant hunt at, 106 Anarajapoora, instinct exhibited by elephants at, 65 Anatomy of the elephant imperfectly known, 56 —— account of by Molyneux, A.D. 1696, 56 _n._ ANSTED, Prof., on the height of elephants, 31 _n._ Antipater brought the first Indian elephant to Greece, 150 Antipathy of elephants to other animals, 12, 15 —— its improbability, 15 Ants, superior to the elephant in sagacity, 68 —— their marvellous power of discovering sugar, 139 _n._ _Arabian Nights_, story of the burial place of dead elephants, 182 ἅρπη. _See_ Hendoo, 156 _n._ ARISTOTLE, on the trunk of the elephant, 28 _n._ —— on the fallacy of the elephant having no joints, 33 —— on the double stomach of the elephant, 57 _n._ —— on its mode of levelling trees, 140 _n._ ARMANDI, error as to the height of Ceylon elephant, 31 _n._ —— on the double stomach of, 67 _n._ —— on elephants in war, 151 _Ar-ré_, sound to guide elephants, 167 _n._ —— its variations in various countries, ib. _Arundel MSS._, errors as to the elephant, 36 Assam, elephant of, x. Avisavelle, elephant corral at, 43 BADULLA, fight between two elephants at, 16 —— adventures with elephants near, 71, 74 BAKER, Sir SAMUEL, on the weight of African ivory, 8 _n._ —— his stories of elephant shooting, 77 _n._ —— on the difference between the Ceylon and African species, 20 _n._ —— on power to uproot trees, 162 _n._ —— on the size of the elephant’s foot in Africa, 98 _n._ BARBEZIEUX, RICHARD DE, error as to joints of elephant, 37 Bari, size of African ivory at, 8 _n._ Bathing elephants, story of, 51, 55 _n._ BENARY, his theory of the derivation of the word elephant, 4 _n._ Bengal, elephants of, viii. —— method of poisoning them, 6 —— mode of capturing them, 104 Bentinck, Baron, communication from, viii. ix.