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marvelous silence which often attends 
their movements when frightened. 
After waiting and listening for a time 
we ventured forth to escort Bibi to her 
prize, and a prize it proved to be, eleven 
feet and two inches high at the shoulders, 
tusks nineteen and a half inches in cir- 
cumference, and eight feet ten inches 
long, right and left weighing, respectively 
one hundred and fifteen, and one hun- 
dred and twelve pounds. The record 
elephant for a woman, and with her first, 
the record pair for a sportsman’s license 
in British East Africa. 
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After making a few hurried measure- 
ments and photographs, and detailing 
a guard of four porters to stay with the 
prize, we started back to camp. Bibi 
will not soon forget that mad race against 
time to gain the shelter of camp ere dark- 
ness overtook us. As the last rays 
-of the equatorial sun withdrew from 
Kenya’s cold unresponsive summit, and 
daylight shrank from before the weird 
shadows and mysterious voices of the 
tropical forest night, we sighted the 
cheery fires of the camp. Our dusky 
followers in a weird chant, announced 
In elephant country on Mount Kenya, at an elevation of 8000 feet in the heavy forest belt 
