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come down in a half-sitting posture, as if they were 

 tobogganing — very much as we have seen them in hippo- 

 dromes and circuses at home. One must have seen how 

 a thirty-seven-year-old gigantic Indian male elephant gets 

 through the tiny door of a special railway truck to 



From a pJiotograph procured by tlic anther at 1 anga. 



A CARAVAX LOAD OF EIGHTY LARGE AND HUNDREDS OF SMALL ELEPHANT- 

 TUSKS, BROUGHT BY A TRADING CARAVAN TO THE COAST 



understand how skilfully these heavy creatures know how 

 to move about. 



According to my experience, the elephant's method 

 of attack is to approach very swiftly with widely flapping 

 ears, and with a piercing, trumpet-like cry. On two 

 occasions, howev^er, no sound was made. Trustworthy 

 natives, whom I had known for many years, have related 

 how in some cases the elephant has seized hold ot the 

 black ivory-hunter, thrown him down, and bored him 



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