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Colony, it is true, some good troops still linger in 

 the extreme south, in the Knysna forest and the 

 Addo bush, but these are carefully protected and 

 have been for seventy years past. In British Central 

 Africa (Nyasaland) they are now carefully protected, 

 and may only be shot by special permit. They are 

 found sparingly in Portuguese West and South-East 

 Africa, in considerable numbers in German and 

 British East Africa, the interior of Gallaland and 

 Somaliland, and Abyssinia. About the Upper Nile, 

 in the almost unknown country opened up by the 

 reconquest of the Soudan, they are undoubtedly at 

 the present time most abundant. Sir William 

 Garstin, who has had unrivalled opportunities of 

 observing elephants amid the vast marshes of the 

 Upper Nile, says of them in a recent article in 

 Country Life : " Nowhere have I seen them in such 

 numbers so fearless of man. I have watched them 

 pass to leeward of a group of Dinkas without taking 

 the slightest notice of them, and without a single 

 trunk being raised in protest. Even when the 

 steamer came upon them suddenly, when feeding in 

 the reeds, they rarely showed any alarm, and merely 

 retreated quietly and without hurry. This is doubt- 

 less to be accounted for by the fact that the elephants 

 in this region have not been hunted or disturbed for 

 many years." l They are also to be found in large 



1 Concerning the Upper Nile regions it is to be noted that by a proclamation 

 in the Sudan Gazette of August I, 1903, large districts are closed to travellers 

 and hunters. These include (a] the district south of the Sobat and Pibor, east 

 of the Bahr-el-Zaraf, and north of Shambe ; (i) the country on the west bank 

 of the White Nile south of a line drawn from Fashoda to El Eddeiya ; (c) the 



