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Elephant'Hunting 



F( )1\. inoiuhs I had hccii trying' in xaiii to f^ct sonic 

 good |)hoi()!^ra])hs ot clcjjhaiUs with niy t'^lophoto 

 lens, and also to get liold ot a young elephant aHve. 

 ]\ly nian\' (hsappoiiitnKMits were more than made up lor, 

 however, one; Sepieniher morning. I rouhled apparently 

 l)y the poisoned arrows discharged at them hy the 

 Wakamha, a large herd ol elephants had made their 

 way down from the mountains and paid a \isit dui'ing the 

 night to the stream Ijy my cam]). 'I'he\' had destroyed 

 the scares, tashioned out ol sh(;cts ol white [)aper. which 

 I had ]cSi on the water with a view to frightening the 

 animals avva\- to other drinking- places, where 1 could 

 photograph them conv<:ni('ntly. 



With the c:xception ol lions, I had lound thai all 

 animals lought sh\' ol these scares, hut in the hri^hl 

 moonlight the)' seem, on th<' contrarx', to ha\'(; attracted 

 the (dephants ; lor, to m\- astonishment, I lound th.it my 



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