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at last I have abjured it. It is too painful for the 

 sportsman to have to proceed like a murderer for the 

 sake of his own safety, yet if he did not he would 

 unquestionably go to his certain death in these thickets ! 

 Elephants enjoy a kind of indirect protection, which 

 even the expert would not suspect. It happens in this 

 way. The rhinoceroses — -which, according' to all the 



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 THE ANIMAT.S 



natives, are by no means friendly towards elephants — 

 continually baffle the elephant-stalker by their frequent 

 presence in mountain-forests of the desert. F"or a single 

 shot thunders through the hills and breaks into manifold 

 echoes, and this is enough to set the wily elephants 

 moving about noiselessly in all directions and setting" 

 many miles between themselves and their pursuers. 



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