 | George P. Sanderson - Elephants - 1912 - 468 pages
...of Adam's Peak, which was reached by a narrow pass with walls of rock on either side, and that here, by the side of a lake of clear water, they took their last repose." This belief of a universal sepulchre is, however, quite untenable as regards Mysore, as there is no... | |
 | William Skeen - Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka) - 1997 - 432 pages
...belie! of his countrymen, that the elephants, when about to die, resorted to a valley in Safirugam, among the mountains to the east of Adam's Peak, which was reached by a narrow pass with walls of reckon either side, and that there, by the side of a lake of clear water, they took their hist repose.... | |
 | Ernest Newbrun - Medical - 1924 - 380 pages
...belief of his countrymen that the elephants, when about to die, resorted to a valley in Saffrag-im among the mountains to the east of Adam's Peak, which...narrow pass with walls of rock on either side, and that here, by the side of a lake of clear water, they took their last repose." A similar mystery cloaks... | |
 | Children's literature - 1882 - 708 pages
...belief of his countrymen, that the elephant, when about to die, resorted to a valley in Saffragam, among the mountains to the east of Adam's Peak, which...reached by a narrow pass, with walls of rock on either TRAVELLERS' TALES. side ; and there, by the side of a lake of clear water, they took their last repose.... | |
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Dehigame, one of the Kandyan chiefs, assured me it was the universal belief of his countrymen, that the elephants, when about to die, resorted to a valley in Saffragam, among the mountains to the east of Adam's Peak, which was reached by a narrow pass... 
