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good, but their scent excellent. Elephants are hunted 

 solely for the ivory of the tusks, although the meat 

 is much prized by the natives as food. They are not 

 easy to shoot, notwithstanding their large size, as vital 

 shots are not always possible. The late Capt. Selous 

 was a well-known Elephant hunter, and described in his 



FIG. 46. The Last Bid for Freedom. 



delightful works on big game shooting in South Africa 

 many adventures with these huge pachyderms. 



I append a photograph of a medium-sized male shot 

 near Bela Vista, Maputoland, also an enlargement of one 

 of the tiny film-pictures taken in August, 1918, by our 

 party, which had for its main object the filming of wild 

 Elephants in their natural state. This was undertaken 

 by the African Film Productions, Ltd., of Johannesburg 

 whose guest I was for the trip and which was, thanks 

 mainly to the Portuguese authorities, an unqualified 

 success. 



