-•> After Elephants with Wandorobo 



clump of acacia trees, Judging from the marks upon 

 these trees some of the elephants in this herd must have 

 been more than eleven feet in height. With renewed 

 zest we followed up the fresh, distinct tracks through 

 the bush, through all their twistings and turnings. Again 

 we came upon all kinds of other animals — among others, 



YOUNG MASAI HARTEBEEST. I DID NOT SUCCEED IN MY EFFORTS TO BRING 

 BACK A SPECIMEN OF THIS SPECIES. 



a herd of giraffes right in our path. But these were 

 opportunities for the naturalist only, not for the sportsman 

 who was keeping himself for the elephants and would 

 not fire a shot at anything else unless in extreme danger. 

 Later, at a moment when we believed ourselves to have 

 got quite close to the elephants, I started an extraordinarily 

 large land-tortoise — the biggest I have ever seen. I 



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