In this garden during the nigl^t previous, elephants had destroyed a large plantain grove and 

 contemptuous of man 



Copyriuht by Carl E. Akeley 

 This was one of a herd of eight or ten ))u)l.. Ho charged ferociously three times and nearly 

 caught one o the boys of the expedition. He was a heavy, tWckset elephant wUh short tusks of 

 dghty pounds each. His ears were extremely large, six feet, five inches m depth 

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