Chap. V The Elephant
An Elephant Corral.
Early method of catching elephants 156
Capture in pit-falls 156
By means of decoys 157
Panickeas—their courage and address 158
Their sagacity in following the elephant 159
Mode of capture by the noose 160
Mode of taming 161
Method of leading the elephants to the coast 162
Process of embarking them at Manaar 162
Method of capturing a whole herd 163
The “keddah” in Bengal described 164
Process of enclosing a herd 165
Process of capture in Ceylon 165
An elephant corral and its construction 166
An elephant hunt in Ceylon, 1847 167
The town and district of Kornegalle 167
The rock of Ætagalla 168
Forced labour of the corral in former times 170
Now given voluntarily 171
Form of the enclosure 172
Method of securing a wild herd 173
Scene when driving them into the corral 174
A failure 176
An elephant drove by night 177
Singular scene in the corral 178
Excitement of the tame elephants (note) 178