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CHAP. VII.

THE ELEPHANT.

Conduct in Captivity.

• Alleged superiority of the Indian to the African elephant—not true 207
• Ditto of Ceylon elephant to Indian 209
• Process of training in Ceylon 211
• Allowed to bathe 213
• Difference of disposition 214
• Sudden death of "broken heart" 216
• First employment treading clay 217
• Drawing a waggon 217
• Dragging timber 218
• Sagacity in labour 218
• Mode of raising stones 218
• Strength in throwing down trees exaggerated 219
• Piling timber 219
• Not uniform in habits of work 220
• Lazy if not watched 220
• Obedience to keeper from affection, not fear 221
• Change of keeper—story of child 222
• Ear for sounds and music 223
• Hurra! (note) 223
• Endurance of pain 224
• Docility 225
• Working elephants, delicate 225
• Deaths in government stud 226
• Diseases 227
• Subject to tooth-ache