or thirty of the great 

 ])easts, their bodies 

 shining with a fresh 

 coating of mud and 

 water from the pool 

 where they had drunk 

 and bathed. As is 

 usual with big herds, 

 they had broken up 

 into small bands on en- 

 tering the forest, and 

 now as the last of them 

 disappeared into the 

 cover of the trees, a 

 fuller appreciation of 

 the surroundings sud- 

 denly dawned upon me. 

 From a mile or more in 

 either direction there 

 came a reverberating 

 roar and crash as the 

 great hordes of mon- 

 sters ploughed their 

 way through the tan- 

 gles of vegetation, 

 smashing trees as they 

 quarreled, played and 

 fed all regardless of 

 forestry regulations. 



Where the little 

 stream at the bottom 

 of the gulley entered 

 the forest, troops of 

 black and white C^olo- 

 bus monkeys were rac- 

 ing about the trees, 

 swearing at the ele- 

 phants. From the tree 

 tops deeper in the forest 

 two or three troops of 

 chimpanzees yelled and shouted at one another or everything in general, 

 baboons barked, and great hornbills did their best to drown all othernoises 

 with their discordant rasi)ing chatter. Suddenly, a cow elephant at the 

 edge of the forest just in front of us uttered her peculiar shrill s(Team of 

 warning. Not only the elephants but all the other forest folk paid heed 



Copyridhl by Carl E. Akelvy 



When approaching this cow from the rear, some slight 

 noise was made, at which she wheeled and charged, pay- 

 ing the death penalty in consequence. The next cut 

 shows the offspring of this cow, a youngster three or four 

 years old and quite able to take care of himself 



