TAME elephants, their conduct in the corral, 134. _See_ Decoys —— value of their labour 162, 174 —— levelling trees, 163 —— piling timber, 164 —— laziness, 165 —— punishments, 165 —— attachment to attendants, 166 —— medical treatment, 168, 170 —— obedience to orders, 169 —— causes of death in captivity, 171 —— weight of draught, 174 —— cost of feeding a tame elephant, 175 —— favourite food, 175 TAVERNIER, on the supposed superiority of the elephant of Ceylon, 153 _n._ Teeth of the Sumatran elephant, viii. TEMMINCK’S _Dutch Possessions in India_, viii. —— account of Sumatran elephant, viii. THEROALDUS, _Physiologus_, error in, as to the joints of the elephant, 36 THEVENOT, on the supposed superiority of the Ceylon elephant to that of India, 152 THOMSON, error in his _Seasons_, as to the joints of the elephant, 38 Timber, how dragged by elephants, 161 _n._, 162 —— wonderful skill in piling of, 164 Tipperah, elephant of, x. Tissaweva. _See_ Anarajapoora, 65 Tooth-ache, 172 Training elephants, 150, &c. —— first employments, 161 —— males more unmanageable than females, 158 —— process of, 150 —— varieties of disposition, 159 Trees, manner in which elephants level them, 146 —— stories of overthrowing exaggerated, 162 _Trompe._ _See_ Trunk Trumpeting, peculiar sound of, 144 Trunk, so called from “trump,” 28 —— Aristotle compares the sound to a trumpet, ib. —— strange drawings of, in the fifteenth century, 28 _n._ Tushes, their use to the elephant, 7 —— they, and not the tusks, shed, 7 _n._ Tuskers, influence of in the herd, 50 —— their efficiency in a corral, 136 Tusks, rare in the Ceylon elephant, 6 —— in Africa both male and female have them, 6 —— average weight of those imported, 60 cwt., 6 _n._ —— in Ceylon are light, owing to the animals being shot young, 6 _n._, 8 —— a favourite treasure in Buddhist temples, 6 _n._, 8 —— both sexes have, in India and Africa, 6 _n._, 8 —— fallacy as to the elephant shedding his tusks, 7 —— conjecture as to the presence of, in African elephant, and their absence in that of India and Ceylon, 7 —— weight in various countries, 8 _n._ —— instance of a diseased one, 8 _n._ _See_ Brooke, Sir Victor —— female elephant has none, in Ceylon, 9 —— not ordinarily used as weapons of offence, 9 —— fight between an elephant and two bulls, at Saragossa, 10 _n._ —— fight of two elephants with their tusks, 10 —— story in Maccabees of Jews killed by elephants, 16 _n._ —— what is their use, 17, 17 _n._ —— abnormal varieties in shape, 17 _n._ TYTLER, Mr., story of curiosity in elephants, 67 _n._ VALENTYN, his account of shipping elephants for India from Ceylon, 103 Vegetable ivory palm, 4 _n._ _Vulgar Errors._ _See_ Sir THOMAS BROWNE, 32 WATER, love of the elephant for, 4 _n._