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the rainy season from the district between the Chobi and Okavango, 

 the elephants twenty years ago were reduced to a single herd 

 frequenting the dense thorn-jungles between Sode Gara and the 

 chain of permanent springs known as Umthlabahanyana. These 

 elephants [which belong to the Matabili race] used sometimes to live 

 together in one large herd, and at others to break up into several 



FIG. 6. Part (if the head of the Sudan Elephant, from Heck, Lebende Bilde 

 aits dent Reichc der Tiere. 



parties. In 1884 the entire herd numbered at least a hundred, 

 among which were four huge bulls. Between the Chobi and the 

 Zambesi there were numbers of elephants thirty years ago, and some 

 may still survive. In 1891 I saw tracks of several large herds in the 

 country between the Buzi and Pungwi rivers ; while in 1 892 I came 

 across some elephants between the latter river and Lake Sungwi. 

 In northern Rhodesia, among the hills and forests lying between 



