With Flashlight and Rifle * 



Count Gotzen, has instituted special rules and regulations, 

 which secure the immunity of the elephants in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Moshi station. 



This is a matter for rejoicing, and will, it is to be 

 hoped, do away with the existing abuses, upon which 

 Dr. Ludwig Heck comments severely in his book The 

 Animal Kingdom ; and will put an end to those 

 "tall stories" of elephant-hunting, which he holds up 

 to ridicule. 



If this is sad information about the disappearance of 

 the African elephant, it is a fitting conclusion to the 

 " elaborate " fables of those persons who tell us in the 

 sporting papers that they propose to go for the rhinoceroses 

 and hippopotamuses when they return to the colony. Un- 

 fortunately, such persons are more numerous than might 

 be supposed. For instance, I heard the remark made 

 that German East Africa could only develop commercially 

 when all the wild animals were destroyed. Germans 

 must indeed learn how to colonise ! I admit this openly, 

 without shame ! 



The rate at which elephants move, especially when 

 attacked or fleeing, is extraordinary. They go at a quick 

 trot, and not at a gallop. This trot is perfectly noiseless 

 in the rainy season, and enables the mighty beasts to travel 

 at night time in an almost ghostly manner, like the 

 rhinoceros and the hippopotamus. In the dry season, 

 however, the moving herd makes a thundering noise on 

 the hard ground. Elephants climb steep mountains, and, 

 like the rhinoceros, tread deep paths among the rocks of 

 the highest peaks. They go over the steepest ranges, and 



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