—— extraordinary scene, 140 —— interesting demeanour of the captives, 140 —— a second herd driven in and taken, 143 —— leading out the captives, 147 CORSE, his account of the Indian elephant, 47 COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES, his account of the export of elephants from Ceylon, 5 _n._ Courage in open ground, 86, 87 Cripps, Mr., description of a strange sound made by elephants, 29 —— story of an elephant feigning death, 70 —— on the taming and training of elephants, 158 —— on their attachment to attendants, 166 Cripps, Mr., on elephants breeding in captivity, 177 Cruelties in elephant shooting, 77 _n._ CTESIAS, fallacy that the elephant has no joints, 33 CUMMING, Mr. GORDON, his cruel experiments on the vital endurance of the elephant, 81 _n._ —— questionable stories of trees uprooted by elephants, 162 _n._ Curiosity, spirit of, strong in the elephant, 67 —— story of Colonel Hardy, 67 Cuspis. _See_ Hendoo, 156 _n._ Cuttack, elephant of, x. —— method of poisoning elephants in, 6 CUVIER, on the comparative sagacity of the elephant, 68 —— on the tusks of elephants, 173 —— on duration of life in, 177 _DAH! DAH!_ word hateful to wild elephant, 100 _Dakra_, a poison for elephants in Bengal, 6 _n._ DARWIN, on the burial place of llamas and goats, 101 _n._ DAVY, Dr., on endurance of pain in the elephant, 168 —— on the spirit of curiosity in the elephant, 67 Dawson, Capt., an elephant shot by, dies standing, 39 DE BLAINVILLE, on the duration of life in the elephant, 177 DE BRY, story of a horse killed by a trained elephant, 13 Dead elephant, body rarely found, 179 Deafness occasional in elephants, 30 Death feigned by an elephant, 70 Decoy elephants, their conduct, 119, 123, 134 _Défenses_. _See_ Tusks, 9 Dekkan, elephant of the, xi. De Lima, General, immense tusks got by, in Africa, 8 _n._ DENHAM, Major, on the height of an African elephant, 31 ——, Major, power of elephant to overthrow trees, 162 _n._ Descending acclivities, mode of, 44 Dentine, 173. _See_ Ivory DICUIL, description of the elephant of Charlemagne, 35 Dinka, size of African ivory at, 8 _n._, 12 DIODORUS SICULUS, on the sagacity of the Indian elephant, 150 Dogs, elephants impatient of, 14 —— Major Skinner’s dog, kept off the elephants by its bark, 15 —— superior in sagacity to the elephant, 69 DONNE, His error as to the joints of the elephant, 38 Dublin, elephant burnt to death, 26 _n._ “Duipa,” an Indian name of the elephant, its signification, 63 _n._ Dust, habit of throwing it over themselves, 133 Dutch possessions in India, vii. _See_ Temminck —— elephant hunts conducted by, 95 EAR, formation of, 167 —— love of music, 168 _n._ —— Sir EVERARD HOME, on hearing in the elephant, 167 Ebony, logs piled by elephants, 164 “Eleph,” Hebrew, conjectured to be the root of elepha, 4 _n._