The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . nt, this singular adventure will be found inp. 27 the Ceylon Miscellany for 1842, vol. i. - Major Rogers. An account of p. 221. 28 The Wild Elephant. from the throat, is a terrific roar of anger or revenge. These words convey but an imperfect idea of the varietyof noises made by the elephant in Ceylon; and theshrill cry produced by blowing through his trunk, so farfrom being regarded as an indication of pleasure, isthe well-known cry of rage with which he rushes to en-counter an assailant. Aristotle describes it as resem-b
The wild elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon . nt, this singular adventure will be found inp. 27 the Ceylon Miscellany for 1842, vol. i. - Major Rogers. An account of p. 221. 28 The Wild Elephant. from the throat, is a terrific roar of anger or revenge. These words convey but an imperfect idea of the varietyof noises made by the elephant in Ceylon; and theshrill cry produced by blowing through his trunk, so farfrom being regarded as an indication of pleasure, isthe well-known cry of rage with which he rushes to en-counter an assailant. Aristotle describes it as resem-bhng the hoarse sound of a trumpet. ^ The Frenchstill designate the proboscis of an elephant by the sameexpression trompe (which we have unmeaningly cor-rupted into tru/ik), and hence the scream of the elephant Menageries, etc. The Elephant, lib. x. ch. cxiii. A manuscript ofjhe ch. iii. p. 68. 15th century in the British Museum, Aristotle, De A?iijH. lib. iv. c. containing the romance of Alex- 9, oy-olov o-aATTtYYi. See also Pliny, under which is probably of the fif-. teenth century, is interspersed with literally in the form of iruinfets with drawings illustrative of the strange expanded months. See AVrights ^r- animals of the East. Amongst them cheeological Album, p. 176, and are two elephants, whose trunks are Reg. 15, e. vi. Brit. Mus. Noises. 29 is known as trumpeting by the hunters in cry when in pain, or when subjected to compulsion,is a grant or a deep groan from the throat, with the pro-boscis curled upwards and the lips wide apart. Should the attention of an individual in the herd beattracted by any unusual appearance in the forest, theintelligence is rapidly communicated by a low suppressedsound made by the lips, somewhat resembling the twit-tering of a bird, and described by the hunters by theword /;7//. A very remarkable noise has been described to me bymore than one individual, who had come unexpectedlyupon a herd during the night, when the alarm
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