36 IN BRIGHTEST AFRICA — 
began to travel away. We followed until the trail 
led through a pass in the mountains and we realized 
that they were going into a different region altogether. 
That trail in the pass was a little wider than an ele- 
phant’s foot and worn six inches deep in the solid 
rock. It must have taken hundreds of years for the 
shuffling of elephants to wear that rock away. 
At another place on Kenia I found an elephant 
passage of a stream where the trail was twenty feet 
wide. Single paths came in from many directions on 
one side of the stream and joined in this great boule- 
vard, which crossed the stream and broke up ‘again 
on the other side into the single paths radiating 
again in every direction. In many places where the 
‘topography of the ground is such that there is only 
one place for a trail there will be unmistakable evi- 
dence that the trails have stayed in the same place 
many years—such as trees rubbed half in two by the 
constant passing of the animals or damp rocks pol- 
ished by the caress of their trunks. And along all 
the trails, old and new, are elephant signs, footprints, 
dung, and gobs of chewed wood and bark from which 
they have extracted the juices before spitting them 
out. 
But finding the elephants is not so frequent or easy 
as the multiplicity of the signs would indicate. One 
reason is that the signs of elephants—tracks, rubbed 
trees, and so forth—are more or less enduring, many 
of them being very plain in places where the elephants 
have not been for months or even years. — If, however, 
you come on fresh elephant tracks, not more than a 
