Copyright by Martin Johnson, author of "Safari." 



Courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



Fig. 3. — A midnight visitor. An African elephant surprised by 



the flashlight at the waterhole just back of the Johnson Camp at 



Lake Paradise, June 25, 1927. 



By a process of evolution "his nose has turned into a hand, his ears into 

 fans, and his teeth into ivory spears." Parts of an animal develop in response 

 to needs for them and vanish with the passing of such need. 



