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forestalled him- But few elephants were killed by my expedition. We 

 were rather anxious, on the other hand, to make experiments in the 

 direction of preserving and domesticating this remarkable beast. To attain 

 this end I called firstly the chiefs of the Kingdom of I'ganda into council 

 and asked them whether their people could attempt to ensnare or catch 

 in some way very young elephants sufficiently small to be easily controlled. 

 Little or nothing of the kind had ever been attempted before in this part 

 of Africa, just as they had never made any previous effort to catch chim- 

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and so anxious to meet one half-way in developing their country, that 

 within a week of having first mentioned the matter to the Eaganda chiefs 

 the first voung elepliant in our series of experiments was landed alive and 

 well at Entebbe. This little creature was at the time only four feet high. 

 In two days it had become perfectly tame, and would follow a human 

 being as readily as his own mother. It was easy enough to feed him 

 with milk, because all that was required was a bottle with a long neck. 

 This bottle was filled with cows' milk diluted with water, and poured 

 down the elephant's throat. Soon all that one had to do was to place 

 the neck of the bottle in the elephant's mouth, and tlie intelligent 



