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the success of the day, telling their com- 
rades of how Bibi had killed “tembo 
kubwa.”’ There within the glow of the 
camp fire Bibi held court while with 
simple childlike enthusiasm, our little 
army of followers crowded around to 
offer their congratulations. 
Next morning we moved camp to a 
circular, turf-carpeted clearing, near to 
the fallen elephant, in order that we 
might care for our prize without a long 
trek to and from the camp. “Tembo 
Circus” as we called it, was the one 
bright, cheerful camping place of our 
whole elephant hunt. Here, while we 
continued the search for a cow elephant, 
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Bibi spent many days surrounded by the 
ever new, ever changing scenes of primi- 
tive life. The forest now sheltered doz- 
ens of camps of Wandorobo who had fol- 
lowed us hither to reap the harvest of the 
last kill. Every day little bands of na- 
tives came in from the shambas with offer- 
ings for the “ Bibi Mzungu,” or to gossip 
with our followers. Diversion was also 
afforded by her little “zoo” which was 
stocked by the Wandorobo boys whose 
services she had enlisted. In the crude 
cages built by her boys, the monkeys, an- 
telopes, and hyrax soon learned to know 
her, and to tell her stories of their lives 
in the unexplored depths of the forest. 
Bibi at “°Tembo Cireus ’’ with a member of her “ zoo.’’ Tembo Circus near the spot where the 
record elephant was shot by Mrs. Akeley, was the camp of the Akeley expedition in 1906. 
Since that 
time this camping place has been used by Colonel Roosevelt and by Stewart Edward White and inter- 
esting mention is made of it in their African writings 
