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THE WILD ELEPHANT.
LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE
AN ELEPHANT CORRAL.
THE WILD ELEPHANT AND THE METHOD OF CAPTURING AND TAMING IT IN CEYLON.
BY SIR J. EMERSON TENNENT, Bart. K.C.S. LL.D. F.R.S. &c. AUTHOR OF “CEYLON, AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND, PHYSICAL, HISTORICAL, AND TOPOGRAPHICAL,” ETC. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1867.
TO MY INTELLIGENT COMPANION IN MANY OF THE JOURNEYS THROUGHOUT THE MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS OF CEYLON, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH MUCH OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME WAS COLLECTED; TO MAJOR SKINNER, CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF ROADS AND PUBLIC WORKS, ETC., ETC. ONE OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED AND VALUABLE SERVANTS OF THE CROWN; IT IS INSCRIBED, IN THE HOPE THAT IT MAY RECALL TO HIM THE PLEASANT MEMORIES WHICH IT AWAKES IN ME.