IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



was long and coarse. One of his tusks weighed sixty- 

 nine pounds, the other sixty-two. The tusks of the 

 cow elephants were smaller, the biggest not weighing 

 more than twenty-nine pounds. 



Rogala, Shinshooko, and Alapai danced round the 

 elephants and cut their tails off, to add to the number 

 they had. Then we made for the plantation with 

 all the meat our canoes could carry. A big platform 

 was built to smoke the meat. We fed on elephant 

 meat for a time, but it was far from being as good as 

 monkey flesh. 



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