•^ P^lc|)hant-I luntini^' 



killed. 'Vhc larger of the two had onl\- oik- tusk, which 

 weighed 28 lb. — a somewhat consideraMe weight tor a 

 COW — and which was already kir gone through decay. 

 The ele|)hant would soon have lost this tusk also. My 

 men found in th(- animal two imn Ijullets such as natives 

 use, one of which was embedded in the out('r coating 

 of its stomach — an indication ot the great vitality of 

 elephants. 



I long exijerienced very keen regret at the failure ot this 

 hunt. I had come so near my desired object ot bringing 

 to Euro]^e the lirst East AtVican elephant from (lerman 

 or British East Atrica — an undertaking no one has yet 

 achieved, despite the ccmstruction since then ot the great 

 Uganda Railway in the heart of the higher regions of 

 the Nile. 



This indicates the difhculty of all such enterprises in 

 a cotmtry in which the presence of the tsetse tly and 

 other such hindrances prevent the use of camels, horses, 

 or mounts ot any kind. 



Not a single young elephant has been brought 

 home to our Zoological Gardens from German East 

 Atrica. The elephant brought home by Herr Dominik, 

 Ober-lieutenant in th(i colonial police, which had been 

 captured by a large nuniber of natives, is trom the 

 Cameroons. 



With the help of Askaris who were at his disposal, 

 and of some elephant-hunters, he succc-eded in killing a 

 herd of ele|)hants which had been h(;mmed in and watched 

 day and night, and to capture all the young animals — very 

 small specimens. Most of them died, and only one young 



