PAIN, patient endurance of, 168 PALLEGOIX, on the white elephant, 23 _n._ —— on sounds produced by elephants, 30 _n._ Palma de marfil, the vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._ Panickeas, their marvellous skill as trackers, 97 —— their singular courage, 79 —— their method of capturing wild elephants, 99 —— mode of taming after capture, 101 —— their method of conducting the captives to the coast, 101 PARIS. _See_ MATTHEW PARIS. Peccary, double stomach of, 58 PETHERICK, his account of large ivory in Soudan, 8 _n._ PHILE, his error as to the joints of the elephant, 35 —— difficulty of the elephant in rising, 30 —— elephant does not object to muddy water, 55 _n._ —— thinks the elephant hates the pig, 117 _n._ —— on elephants as executioners, 154 _n._ —— elephant’s love of music, 168 _n._ PHILLIPE, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon to the Indian elephant, 152 _Physiologus._ _See_ THEROALDUS, 36 PICTET, Prof., his essay on the derivation of the word _elephant_, 4 _n._ Pigs, antipathy of the elephant to. _See_ Swine, 14 —— spoil the capture at a corral, 116 Pingo, 71 _n._ Pit-falls, elephants surprised in, 67. —— objections to, 96 PLINY, his fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, 7 _n._ —— as to the antipathy of the elephant to other animals, 15 —— error as to the joints of the elephant, 32 —— the _machlis_, 33 —— terror of the elephant for white rods, 128 —— mode of taming it, 151 —— belief that the elephant has two hearts, 160 Poison for destroying elephants in Bengal, 6 POLYHISTOR. _See_ SOLINUS, 35 Ponnekella. _See_ Mahout, 122 Portuguese, elephant hunts conducted by, 95 —— origin of the word corral, 105 POTT, conjecture as to the derivation of the word “elephant,” 4 _n._ PRINGLE, on power of elephant to uproot trees, 162 _n._ Provençal song-writers, errors as to the elephant, 37 _Pseudodoxia Epidemica._ _See_ Sir THOMAS BROWNE. Ptolemy Philopater, employs elephant to kill Jewish martyrs, 16 _n._ Punishments for tame elephants, 165 Puswael, a gigantic bean, 110 PYRARD, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon to that of India, 152 Pyrrhus, his elephants, 4 _n._, 150 RAIN, coming of foreseen by the elephant, 69 Raja-Kariya, 110. _See_ Ripon. Ramgur, method of poisoning elephants in, 6 Ranghani, the nooser, 123 —— his prowess and success, 127 Raté-mahat-meyas, encourage the taking of elephants in corrals, 111 REINAUD, on the use of the elephant in war, 154 _n._ Repose, peaceful, of the elephant, 84 Retirement, love of, 85 Rhinoceros, alleged antipathy between and the elephant, 9 Ripon, Earl of, abolishes rajakariya, 110 Rise, difficulty of the elephant to, 38, 39 Rogers, Major, story of his horse and the elephants, 13 _n._ —— elephant shot by him falls on its knees, 39 —— number killed by him, 77 _n._