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

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Armandi, Hist. Milit. des Eléphants, liv. i. ch. i. p. 2. It is an interesting fact, noticed by Armandi, that the elephants figured on the coins of Alexander and the Seleucidæ invariably exhibit the characteristics of the Indian type, whilst those on Roman medals can at once be pronounced African, from the peculiarities of the convex forehead and expansive ears.—Ibid. liv. i. cap. i. p. 3.

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Armandi has, with infinite industry, collected from original sources a mass of curious information relative to the employment of elephants in ancient warfare, which he has published under the title of Histoire Militaire des Eléphants depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à l’introduction des armes à feu. Paris, 1843.

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