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were perfect. The following measurement of the 

 animal itself was most accurately taken a few minutes 

 after its death : — 



Height at shoulder, ten feet eight inches ; girth 

 (measuring half), fifteen feet four inches ; length from 

 head to croup, eleven feet one inch ; circumference of 

 forearm, four feet eleven inches ; length of right tusk, 

 out, four feet eight inches ; ditto left, four feet seven 

 inches ; greatest circumference of right tusk, one foot 

 ten inches; ditto left, one foot ten inches and a quarter; 

 breadth between points of tusks, two feet ten inches ; 

 ditto base at trunk, one foot five inches. The entire 

 length of the tusks measured on the following day — 

 right, six feet seven inches ; left, six feet six inches. 



This appeared to me by far the largest ele- 

 phant I had seen in Africa, and still it will be seen 

 how small it would be beside an Indian elephant 

 carrying the same weight of ivory. I have myself 

 killed bull elephants in India with smaller tusks, meas- 

 uring over twelve feet in height. Sportsmen have told 

 me of their having killed elephants fifteen feet high, 

 but I have never seen one that height yet, and am 

 inclined to think they are very rare. The massive- 

 ness of this animal's head and neck was much greater 

 than anything I have seen in Asia. 



Taking a short turn in the evening, but seeing no 

 fresh elephant spoor, and being hard up for a bit of fresh 

 meat for myself (not caring much about the elephant!) 

 I was tempted to kill a bush-bock just at dusk. On my 

 return to camp I found that Moloka's villagers had ar- 

 rived during my absence, and had been hard at work 

 cutting up the meat into long stripes, and hanging it up 



