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the rainy season from the district between the Chobi and Okavango, 

 the elephants twenty years ago were reduced to a single herd 

 frequenting the dense thorn-jungles between Sode Gara and the 

 chain of permanent springs known as Umthlabahanyana. These 

 elephants [which belong to the Matabili race] used sometimes to live 

 together in one large herd, and at others to break up into several 



Fu;. 6.— Fart of the head of the Sudan Elephant, from Heck, Lebende Bilde 

 tins dcni Reiche dcr Ticre. 



parties. In 1884 the entire herd numbered at least a hundred, 

 among which were four huge bulls. Between the Chobi and the 

 Zambesi there were numbers of elephants thirty years ago, and some 

 may still survive. In 1891 I saw tracks of several large herds in the 

 country between the Buzi and Pungwi rivers; while in 1892 I came 

 across some elephants between the latter river and Lake Sungwi. 

 In northern Rhodesia, among the hills and forests lying between 



