“_Elephant_,” derivation of the word, 4 _n._ —— conjectures of Pictet, Bochart, Pott, and Benary, 4 _n._ —— great numbers in Ceylon, 5 —— will ere long be extinct in India, 6 _n._ —— alleged enmity to man, and other animals, 10 —— signs of perfection in. See _Hastisilpe_, 21 —— natural colour of the skin, 22 —— loves shade, 25 —— scene, by night while bathing, 52 —— stomach of the elephant double, 56 —— the Ceylon elephant supposed to exceed that of India in sagacity, 152 Elephant, the first brought to Greece by Antipater, 150 Elephant shooting. _See_ Shooting ἐλέφας signified not the elephant, but its _ivory_, 4 _n._ —— Benary’s derivation of the word, 66 _n._ Elephas Sumatranus. _See_ Sumatra, viii. —— supposed to differ from the elephant of India, vii. —— this theory doubted by Dr. Falconer, ix. Elk, error of Cæsar in saying that the “alce” has no joints, 33 _Englishman, Voyage of a certain_, story of an elephant killing a horse, 13 _n._ EVELYN, JOHN, refutes the fallacy that the elephant has no joints, 33 Eye of the elephant small, 26, ib. _n._ —— its accuracy when engaged in working, 26 FAIRHOLME on the elephant, 159 _n._ FALCONER, Dr., doubts the alleged difference between the elephants of Sumatra and India, ix. —— on the height of elephants, 31 _n._ Fanning themselves, habit of, 84 —— extreme grace of the movement, 136 —— in the corral, 135 Feet, habit of swinging, 84 —— not, as supposed, a substitute for exercise, 85 Females in a herd, numerous, 47 Fences, elephant’s dread of, 65 _Fils-ben_, Danish for ivory, 4 _n._ Flesh of the elephant coarse, 88 FLEURENS, on the duration of life in the elephant, 177 Flies, their marvellous faculty of discerning carrion, 139 _n._ —— account of their hurrying to death-beds, 139 _n._ Food of the elephant when wild, 63 —— when tamed and trained, 175 Foot, a frequent seat of disease, 170 —— its extreme sensitiveness, 133 —— of the elephant makes good soup, 89 —— twice its circumference equal to the height of the animal, 98 _n._ FORBES, anecdote from his _Oriental Memoirs_, 107 _n._ Forehead of the elephant, wound in, fatal, 80 Fossil elephant, 159 _n._ Fretz, Gerard, frightful wound, 90 GADJAH. _See_ Sumatran elephant, viii. Gallwey, Capt. P. Payne, number of elephants shot by him, 77 _n._ Geological formation of Ceylon, vii. “_Goondah._” _See_ Rogue, 48 Gooneratné Modliar, his derivation for the word elephant, 5 _n._ GUILLIM, heraldry of the elephant, 38 _n._ HAIRY elephants, 159 _n._ Hardy, Colonel, story of, 69 Haroun, Alraschid, sends an elephant to Charlemagne, 35 HARRISON, Dr., on the anatomy of the elephant, 26 _n._, 57 _n._, 60, 61 —— on the structure of the head, 79 —— on the ear of the elephant, 167 _Hastisilpe_, a Singhalese work on elephants, 17 _n._, 21 Hawkus. _See_ Hendoo, 155