AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



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Mr. Roosevelt's description of one of the elephant pictures written on the back of it 



Early in the afternoon some of the scouts returned 

 with news that three bull elephants were in a piece of for- 

 est a couple of miles distant, and thither we went. It 

 was an open grove of heavy thorn timber beside a strip of 

 swamp; among the trees the grass grew tall, and there 

 were many thickets of arbutilon, a flowering shrub a dozen 

 feet high. On this the elephant were feeding. Tarlton's 

 favorite sport was lion hunting, but he was also a first- 

 class elephant hunter, and he brought me up to these bulls 

 in fine style. Although only three hundred yards away, 

 it took us two hours to get close to them. Tarlton and 

 the "shenzis" wild natives, called in Swahili (a kind of 

 African chinook) "wa-shenzi" who were with us, climbed 

 tree after tree, first to place the elephants, and then to see 

 if they carried ivory heavy enough to warrant my shooting 

 them. At last Tarlton brought me to within fifty yards 



