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should not greatly care to kill any more elephant. They 
are too big, too old and wise, to be classed as mere game. 
As I stood by the side of that vast fallen bulk, I realized I 
had extinguished a life perhaps more than three times as 
old as my own. What had not these great beasts seen and 
survived? What comings and goings of the tribes? What 
changes among the petty bands of men. He was probably 
a full-grown elephant when Livingstone first resolutely 
set his face toward Africa’s unknown interior. I felt 
small, and a little guilty. 
