A Ninc-Tusked Elcpha?it 



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mammal. This is all that we know, or are ever likely to know, 

 regarding this extraordinary case, and it was a most fortunate 

 chance that sent Mr Baines to the spot to take the sketches from 

 the description of the man who saw it, killed it, ate it, and sold it. 



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Fig. I. 



The woodcut, fig. i, is taken from Mr Baines' sketch of the 

 right side of the head, fig. 2, from that of the left side (both drawn 

 in Africa). 



Fig. 2. 



When Mr Baines put these into our hands, our first step was 

 to endeavour to decipher the problem they presented— to 

 bring the huddle of tusks into something like order, for, however 

 incongruous in appearance, they could not be disposed at chance, 



