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._