The foot its chief weapon 16 Use of the tusks in a wild state doubtful 17 Anecdote of sagacity in an elephant at Kandy 19 Difference between African and Indian species 20 Native ideas of perfection in an elephant 21 Blotches on the skin 22 White elephants not unknown in Ceylon 23 CHAPTER II. HABITS WHEN WILD. Water, but not heat, essential to elephants 25 Sight limited 26 Caution 26 Smell acute 27 Hearing good _ib._ Cries of the elephant 27 Trumpeting 28 Booming noise 29 Height, exaggerated 30 Facility of stealthy motion 31 Ancient delusion as to the joints of the leg 32 Its exposure by Sir Thos. Browne _ib._ Its perpetuation by poets and others 35 Position of the elephant in sleep 38 An elephant killed on its feet 39 Mode of lying down 40 Its gait a shuffle _ib._ Power of climbing mountains 41 Facilitated by the joint of the knee 43 Mode of descending declivities, _note_ _ib._ A “herd” is a family 45 Attachment to their young 46 Suckled indifferently by the females _ib._ A “rogue” elephant 47 Their cunning and vice 48 Injuries done by them 49 The leader of a herd a tusker 50 Bathing and nocturnal gambols, description of a scene by Major Skinner 51 Method of swimming 55 Internal anatomy imperfectly known 56 Faculty of storing water 58 Peculiarity of the stomach 59 The food of the elephant 63