The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon
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._