Head, wound in, fatal, 79 —— section of, 80 —— this fact noticed by Pliny, 79 _n._ Hearing. _See_ Ear Heber, Bishop, describes a diminutive species of elephant, 159 _n._ Hedges, dreaded by elephants, 67 Height, exaggerated estimates of, in elephants, 30 Hendoo, used by the mahout, 155 Herd, the term described as applied to the elephant, 45 —— similarity of features in, 45 —— submissive to one leader, 50 —— their conventional association and attachment, 45 HERODOTUS, account of the antipathy of the elephant to the camel, 13 —— veneration for white horses and white oxen, 23 Himalayas, elephant paths on, 43 Hippopotamus, solitary individuals of, 49 HODGSON, Mr. B. H., his explorations in Nepal, xi. Hog, double stomach of, 58 HOLLAND, DR., on the physiology of tusks, 17 _n._ HOME, Sir EVERARD, on the double stomach of the elephant, 58 —— on the ear of the elephant, 166, 167 HOME, RANDAL, his heraldry of the elephant, 38 HOOKER, Dr., elephants in the Himalayas, 43 _Hora._ _See_ Rogue, 47, 72 HORACE, mentions a white elephant at Rome, 24 Horse, alleged antipathy of the elephant to, 12 —— instances in disproof of this, 13 —— killed by a trained elephant, 13 —— anecdote of the meeting of a horse and an elephant, 19 —— structure of the shoulder joint, 41 IDLENESS, love of, in tame elephants, 165 Indian elephant supposed to differ from that of Sumatra, viii. —— comparative anatomy of, vii. —— varieties of the same species in, x. —— elephant is dying out in India, 6 _n._ Indicopleustes (_see_ Cosmas), export of elephants, 5 Ivory, annual importations of, 6 _n._ —— proportion from Ceylon, 6 _n._ —— of Ceylon preferred in China, 6 _n._ —— African preferred in Europe, 6 _n._ —— weight of, in various countries, 8 _n._ —— immense African tusks at Goa, 8 _n._ —— how formed. _See_ Dentine, 173 JAFFNA, instinct shown by elephants at, 64 JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, fallacy as to elephants shedding tusks, 7 _n._ Java, no elephants in the island, viii. Joints, ancient error as to the elephant having none, 32 —— explanation of its origin, 38, 39 KANDY, the King of, held the killing of an elephant a criminal offence, 5 —— his hunts for capturing elephants, 96 Keddah. _See_ Corral, 104 Kimbul-oya. _See_ Alligator River, 106 Knox, his account of executions by trained elephants, 17 —— on the attachment of the herd to the young, 47 —— his accounts of elephant hunts in Kandy 77 _n._ Kombook tree; lime extracted from the bark, 110 Korahl. _See_ Corral. Korles, the Seven, elephant hunts in, 4 Kornegalle, beauty of the place, 107 —— its temple the resort of Buddhists, 108 —— sacred footstep on the rock, 108 Kraal. _See_ Corral —— derivation of the word, 105 Kurahl. _See_ Corral Kurminia-galla, 107 _n._ Kurunoi-galla. _See_ Kornegalle