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9 feet 8 inches (two) respectively, while the two 

 tallest females were 8 feet 5 inches, and 8 feet 

 3 inches in vertical height at the shoulder. 



Not only did Mr. Sanderson capture an immense 

 number of wild elephants during many years at 

 the work, but he also travelled long distances to 

 personally measure any tame ones whose height 

 was reported to him as being out of the common. 



Needless to say, elephants look very much taller 

 than they really are ; and the first wild rogue which 

 the sportsman, who has never before killed one, 

 may encounter in the jungle, will appear to him 

 as an animal of enormous proportions. 



The extraordinarily accurate idea which may 

 be formed of an elephant's height by the measure- 

 ment of the track of his forefoot, is very useful 

 to the sportsman. Roughly speaking, the animal 

 will be found to measure in height six times the 

 diameter thereof. If therefore a footprint will 

 admit the forearm of a man of a little above 

 average size from elbow to tip of the extended 

 middle finger, the elephant which made it stands 

 about nine feet at the withers. 



The brain of this animal is very small as com- 

 pared with his size, and it lies low and far back 

 in the head. The beginner should, if possible, 

 examine a skull in a museum or elsewhere (in 

 the Colombo museum there is one sawn in halves, 

 showing the brain cavity), and he will at a glance 

 see how small a space the brain-pan occupies in 

 the huge head. After this, he should carefully 

 study the head of a live, tame elephant, and take 



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