The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . vered muscle, andrather inclined to the surmise that it was designed toassist the elephant in producing the remarkable soundthrough his proboscis known as trumpeting ; but thereis litde room to doubt that of the two the rejected hy-pothesis was the more correct one. I have elsewheredescribed the occurrence to which I was myself a witness,of elephants inserting their proboscis in their mouths, Proceed. Roy. Irish. Acad. vol. iv. p. 133. 62 The Wild Elephant. and withdrawing gallons of water, which could only havebeen contai
The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . vered muscle, andrather inclined to the surmise that it was designed toassist the elephant in producing the remarkable soundthrough his proboscis known as trumpeting ; but thereis litde room to doubt that of the two the rejected hy-pothesis was the more correct one. I have elsewheredescribed the occurrence to which I was myself a witness,of elephants inserting their proboscis in their mouths, Proceed. Roy. Irish. Acad. vol. iv. p. 133. 62 The Wild Elephant. and withdrawing gallons of water, which could only havebeen contained in the receptacle figured by Camper andHome, and of which the true uses were discerned by theclear intellect of Professor Owex. I was not, till veryrecently, aware that a similar obser\^ation as to this re-markable habit of the elephant, had been made by theauthor of the Ayeen Akbcr\\ in his account of the FedKanck, or elephant stables of the Emperor Akbar, inwhich he says, an elephant frequently ^vith his trunktakes water out of his stomach and sprinkles himself. UATER-CELLS IN THE OF THE CAMEL. with it, and it is not in the least offensive. ^ Forbes, inhis Oriental Memoirs, quotes this passage of the AyeenAkbcry, but without a remark ; nor does any Europeanwriter with whose works I am acquainted appear to havebeen cognisant of the peculiarity in question. It is to be hoped that Professor Owens dissection of Ayeen Akhery, transl. by Gladwin, vol. i. pt. i. p. 147. Hlodc of Eating. 6 o the young elephant, recently arrived, may serve to de-cide this highly interesting point. ^ Should scientific in-vestigation hereafter more clearly establish the fact that,in this particular, the stmcture of the elephant is as-similated to that of the llama and the camel, it will beregarded as more than a mere coincidence, that an appa-ratus, so unique in its purpose and action, should havebeen conferred by the Creator on the three animals whichin sultry climates are, by this arran
Size: 1730px × 1445px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookidwild, booksubjectelephants
