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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



employed that, despite the vast numbers of these great mammals 

 which forty or fifty years ago thronged the interior from the Orange 

 River northwards, but few herds are now left south of the Zambesi. 

 .In all Khama's country of Bamangwato, for instance, where Gordon 

 Gumming, Oswell, and others shot most of their elephants, only one 

 solitary herd remains. 



Owner's Measurements. 



Owner. 



II. Weld-Blundell. 



E. S. Grogan and G. A. S. ('ape. 



A. II. Neumann. 



James J. Harrison. 



E. S. Grogan. 



Abel Chapman. 



Major R. M. Sanders. 



A. H. Neumann. 



E. Yaughan Kirby. 

 Capt. H. I)e I'ree. 

 Barnum and Bailey. 



F. Yaughan Kirby. 

 Capt. C. Hankey. 

 S. Robbins. 



F. C. Selous. 

 Sir John Kirk. 



II.R.1I. the Duke of Saxe- 



Coburg and Gotha. 

 Viscount Edmond de I'oncins. 



A. E. Butter, 

 in straight line. 



1 Length from root of tail to eye 



With reference to the subject, Mr. A. H. Neumann, the author of 

 Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, says, " I am an un- 

 believer in 14 ft. elephants or anything like it. Possibly (though I 

 doubt even that) there may be a 1 2 ft. one in existence, but I have had 

 some experience (and probably more opportunities of j'udging than 



