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had failed so wretchedly ! For now both the animals 

 had taken themselves off for ever so long. 



On one other occasion I succeeded in getting near 

 some huge bull elephants in the bush. I had seen them 

 from a hill. I stationed some men there, whom I could 

 discern from time to time through my field-glasses, and 

 who guided my steps by waving a small white cloth in 



THE YOUNG ELEPHANT DRAGGED US HITHER AND THITHER BETWEEN 

 THE BODIES OF THE OLD ANIMALS. THEN, AT LAST, IT MADE UP 

 ITS MIND TO FOLLOW US TO THE CAMP, WHICH WAS FIVE HOURS' 

 MARCH AWAY 



the direction the elephants were taking in the thicket. 

 After endless difficulties at last I got near them. In 

 another moment I must see them. To my delight there 

 were here some small open spaces in the thicket. But 

 there was yet another gorge to get over. 



Suddenly a number of large doves (Columba arquatrix], 

 very similar to our own ringdoves, clattered off from 



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