A FEW SPECIMENS OF ELEPHAXT-TUSKS SECURED BY THE EMISSARIES OF 

 DEUSS & CO., IX PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. 



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A Dying Race of Giants 



EVERY one who knows Equatorial East Africa will 

 bear me out in saying that it is easier nowadays 

 to kill fitty rhinoceroses than a single bull-elephant 

 carrying tusks weighing upwards of a couple of hundred 

 pounds. 



There are only a few survivors left ot this world- 

 old race of giants. Many species, probably, have 

 disappeared without leaving a single trace behind. The 

 block granite sarcophagi on the Field of the Dead in 

 Sakkarah in Egvpt, dating from So Years ago, are 



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memorials (each weighing some 64 tons) of the sacred 

 bulls of Apis : the mightiest monument ever raised by 

 man to beast. Bulls were sacred to Ptah, the God of 

 Memphis, and their gravestones which Marietta, tor 



instance, brought to light in 



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-yield striking evidence 



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