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wide made by his opponent's tusk, and from which 

 he had evidently lost a large quantity of blood, the 

 surrounding grass being spattered with gore. From 

 the trampled condition of the ground, it was evident 

 that there had been some preliminary skirmishing 

 before we had arrived on the scene. The tusk of 

 the smaller animal was broken in two places, but the 

 first piece, forming the tip, we never found. From 

 the accompanying photograph, depicting the middle 

 portion of the tusk, the reader can form some idea 

 of the tremendous force brought into play to produce 

 such a fracture in so tough a material as ivory. 



As there were no females present or in the 

 vicinity, the tussle between those two bull elephants 

 cannot be ascribed to jealousy that prime incen- 

 tive to most of the fighting done by animals of every 

 species and unless they were quarrelling over some 

 absent love, I must admit that I cannot explain 

 ' what they fought each other for.' 



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