LABOUR of tame elephants too costly, 164, 174. _See_ Tame Elephants Lampongs. _See_ Sumatra, viii. Leap, the elephant unable to, 40 —— anecdote, doubtful, of an elephant leaping, 41 LE BRUN, his account of the elephants in Ceylon, 5 _n._ Leyden, elephants in Museum, x. Life, duration of in the elephant, 177, 178 Lightning, dreaded by elephants, 68 Lindsay, Mr., adventure with elephants, 75 LIVINGSTONE, Dr., on the solitary hippopotamus, 49 Llama, double stomach of, 60 _n._ Louis XIV., elephant belonging to, 57 Loxodon. _See_ Elephas Sumatranus, viii. _Luca bos_, Roman term for the elephants of Pyrrhus, 4 _n._ _MACCABEES_, story of Jews killed by elephants, 16 _n._, 154 _n._ Machlis, an unknown animal, described by Pliny, 33 M‘GEE, Dr., his account of flies hurrying towards persons dying, 139 _n._ _Mahawanse_, mention of a white elephant in, 23 Mahout, elephant driver, the power of discrimination in India, x. —— conduct of the mahouts in a corral, 129 —— mahouts said to die young, 166 Males, proportion of in a herd, small, 47 Malta, small fossil elephant found at, 159 _n._ Man, elephant has no natural antipathy to, 10 —— few deaths occasioned by them, 10 Manaar, singular scene on shipping elephants for India, 102 —— described in A.D. 1701, 102 _Marfil_, Spanish name for ivory, 4 _n._ —— _See Mafirm_, Portuguese, ib. Marfil, Palma de, the vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._ _Marfim_, Portuguese for ivory, 4 _n._ MASSOUDI, on the use of the elephant in war, 159 _n._ MATTHEW PARIS, his error as to the joints of the elephant, 36 Matura, elephants shipped from for India, 103 Mercer, Mr. Græme, story of a fight between two elephants, 16 Metatarsus, shortness of, enables the elephant to climb, 43 MOLYNEUX, his anatomy of the elephant, 56 Moormen of Ceylon, 97. _See_ Panickeas. MORRIS, Mr., conducts the corral in 1847, 109 MOULIN, A., his letter to Sir William Petty, 56 _n._ “_Mudda._” _See_ “Must,” 11 Muddy water not objected to by elephants, 55 Music, elephants’ love of, 168 “Must,” term explained, 11 NOUAER, size of African ivory at, 8 _n._ NATIVES of Ceylon, their narratives of accidents and adventures with elephants, 71 Negombo, adventures with elephants at, 75 Nepal-root, a poison for elephants, 6 Nepal, mode of capturing elephants in, 97 Nile, White, enormous tusks got near, 8 _n._ _See_ Baker, Sir Samuel Noises produced by elephants, 27 Noosers. _See_ Cooroowe, 122 —— their extraordinary courage, 136 Noosing elephants, as practised by the Panickeas, 99 Noosing in a corral, operation described, 122, 124 Numidia, Medal of, 156 _n._ OLFACTORY lobes, 26 _n._ Optic nerve in the elephant, 26 _n._ Osteology of the elephant. _See_ Teeth, viii. x. OWEN, Prof., on the anatomy of the elephant, 56 _n._, 59, 60, 62 —— on the formation of ivory, 173