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of years the Masai, tor the sake ot their cattle herds, con- 

 tested with them the rights of this drinking-place. Then 

 the white man came and the Masai vanished, and again the 



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elephants found their way to the Kilepo valley. Later, 

 white settlers came Boers, ruthless in their attitude towards 

 wild life and took up their abode in the Kilimanjaro region, 

 The day cannot now be far distant when the last of the 

 elephants will have gone,' from the heart of Kilepo Hill. 

 But these two, long since killed, no doubt, will continue to 

 live on in my pictures tor many a year to come. 



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