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weights of my teeth, so I will copy them from my 

 ivory book. Where there is a great difference 

 between the weight of a pair it is because of one 

 having been broken. 



" Those are the ' Turkana ' trip teeth. March 

 12th, you will notice, was a good day. It was 

 unlucky one having only a single tusk. Of course 

 I couldn't see that, it was in thick bush and raining ; 

 but I ought to have got another if I hadn't done 

 an unlucky thing. The first one I got by itself; 

 then I went on and found the others, as I said; 

 and after the first shot at the one I could see, one 

 rushed past me, almost over me. I had a con- 

 venient log to crouch behind, and as he ran past 

 on the other side of it I gave him, stupidly, both 

 barrels, almost touching him with the rifle, having 

 jumped up just as he was level with me. A second 

 later another followed; my rifle empty — gunbearer 

 had fled with second gun ! But on my next trip 

 to Lorian, from which I have just returned, I scored 

 a double right and left. At dawn I was down by 

 the swamp. We got there before fully light, and 

 made out what looked at a distance in the dusk 

 like zebra (the zebra there are the big Grevy), 



