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of the sportsmen in the midst, thus perpetuating' their 

 valour. Such sportsmen, however, can have no notion 

 of the wonderful experience of the man who hunts alone. 

 The natives who take part in the hunt are often of 

 the belief that after you have killed fifteen elephants 

 successfully, luck turns against you. From this on 

 they prefer to devote themselves to the making of 

 elephant-charms, and let others hunt in their place. 

 I believe they are not far wrong. 



THE PREPARATION OF THIS ELEPHANT-SKULL, AND 

 THE HIDE OF THE BEAST, LASTED A WEEK 



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