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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of African Elephant. 



AFRICAN ELEPHANT (Elephas africanus). 



Arb of the Gallas. Tlo in Barotsiland. 



Dakana of the Abyssinians (Dan- Tlilo in Ngamiland. 



akil). ZaJwn of the Abyssinians. 



Marodi of the Somalis. Temba of the Svvahilis. 



Njovu in the Chilala and Chibisa countries. 



The African elephant, although still abundant in many regions of 

 Central Africa, in the southern part of the Continent is rapidly 

 approaching extinction. A very remarkable exception to this melan- 

 choly process of extermination is, however, to be found in the south 

 and east of Cape Colony, where, since the year 1830, wild elephants 

 have been systematically preserved by Government. Strong troops of 

 these protected elephants still roam the dense and impenetrable jungles 

 of the Addo Bush and the Knysna and Zitzikamma forests. Farther 

 inland the ivory-hunters have for a generation past been so actively 

 employed, that, despite the vast numbers of these great mammals 

 which forty or fifty years ago thronged the interior from the Orange 



