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small Uganda tribe whose crops he had de 

 stroyed, whose field watchers he had killed, 

 and whose village he menaced with destruction. 

 Of all the wonderful great beasts with which 

 primitive man in his most primitive forms has 

 been associated, the three with which on the 

 whole this association was most wide-spread in 

 time and space, were the horse, the lion, and the 

 elephant. 



