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seen . full-grown elephants show great solicitude and put themselves 

 into positions of danger to save a wounded comrade." 



The following notes on elephants in British East Africa are 

 extracted from material supplied by Mr. A. H. Neumann : — 



" In East Equatorial Africa the elephant still holds possession of its 

 primeval domains, although it must not be supposed that the whole 

 country is one vast elephant -preserve. Indeed, one might almost 

 travel through the length and breadth of the land without seeing 

 elephants if they were not specially sought for. Immense tracts are 



Fig. 7. — Elephant shot at Mount Marsaljit, from a photograph by Lord Delamere. 



unsuited to their wants, and, though they may wander through these 

 on migration, it is only in certain widely separated localities that all 

 the conditions of food, water, and covert are suitable. Avoiding, as a 

 rule, thick forests, elephants prefer dense but shadeless scrub, little or 

 no taller than themselves : — in the mountains, and sometimes by the 

 rivers, with a profusion of small, rough, rasping leaves, but elsewhere 

 parched and thorny. The covert may, however, be of giant grass, 

 almost more dense than the scrub. 



" In such places you may hear, and even smell, the elephants ; but. 

 unless you approach within a few yards, you are not likely to see 



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