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CHAPTER I.
AN ELEPHANT CORRAL.
Early method of catching elephants 96
Capture in pit-falls, note ib.
By means of decoys 97
Panickeas—their courage and address ib.
Their sagacity in following the elephant ib.
Mode of capture by the noose 99
Mode of taming 100
Method of leading the elephants to the coast 101
Process of embarking them at Manaar 102
Method of capturing a whole herd 103
The “keddah” in Bengal described 104
Process of enclosing a herd ib.
Process of capture in Ceylon 105
An elephant corral and its construction 105
An elephant hunt in Ceylon, 1847 106
The town and district of Kornegalle ib.
The rock of Aetagalla 107
Forced labour of the corral in former times 110
Now given voluntarily 111
Form of the enclosure 112
Method of securing a wild herd 114
Scene when driving them into the corral 116
A failure ib.
An elephant drove by night 118
Singular scene in the corral 119
Excitement of the tame elephants, note ib.
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