Difference of disposition 158 Sudden death of “broken heart” 160 First employment treading clay 161 Drawing a waggon _ib._ Dragging timber _ib._ Sagacity in labour _ib._ Mode of raising stones 162 Strength in throwing down trees exaggerated _ib._ Piling timber 163 Not uniform in habits of work 164 Lazy if not watched 165 Obedience to keeper from affection, not fear _ib._ Change of keeper—story of child 166 Ear for sounds and music 167 _Ur-re! note_ _ib._ Endurance of pain 168 Docility 169 Working elephants, delicate 170 Deaths in Government stud 171 Diseases 172 Subject to tooth-ache _ib._ Question of the value of labour of an elephant 174 Food in captivity, and cost 175 Breed in captivity 176 Age 177 Theory of M. Fleurens _ib._ No dead elephants found 179 Sindbad’s story 181 _Appendix._—Passage from Ælian 183 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. View of an Elephant Corral _Frontispiece_ Brain of the Elephant 26 The Trunk as figured in the fifteenth century 28 Bones of the Fore-leg 41 Elephant descending a Hill 44 Elephant’s Well 55 Elephant’s Stomach, showing the Water-cells 59 Elephant’s Trachea 60 Water-cells in the Stomach of the Camel 62 Section of the Elephant’s Skull 80 Ground Plan and Fence of a Corral 112 Noosing Wild Elephants _to face_ 124