THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



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most of those who pose as authorities), and I have never killed one 

 that could be absolutely guaranteed to be over 1 1 ft. 3 ins. in height 

 (to be quite on the safe side, for as a fact I made it an inch more). I 

 have killed two of that height in my time, and not another within 

 several inches of tins." 



photograph hy Mr. J. K. If. Pigotl. 



The Big Tusk (8 ft. "J\ ins., 165 Ibs.) presented by the Officers serving in British East Africa 

 to H. R.H. the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his marriage. 



Tusks. 



Length Greatest \Veinht. Locality, 



(outside curve), circumference. 



293 .East Africa 



Do. 

 Do. 



247 East Africa 



Owner. 



Rowland Ward. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 

 British Museum. 



Charles I'ulley. 



