APPENDIX 



PAKT I 



SOME HABITS OF THE ELEPHANT, RHINOCEROS, 

 AND LION 



DURING the seven consecutive years which I have passed 

 in wild regions in search of large animals, I have had 

 occasion to notice more than one interesting peculiarity 

 in their habits. I consider as an indispensable supplement 

 to these records a few particulars about the animals which 

 have, to a great extent, formed their subject. I lay down 

 my rifle, therefore, to study, in their haunts as a naturalist 

 would, the three chief inhabitants of the African bush, 

 the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the lion. 



ELEPHANT (Elephas africanus) 



ELEPHANT. Age and signs of old age Size Circumference of the foot 

 Reproduction Young on the march or in danger How they suck 

 Maternal solicitude The tusks, their weight and length Tuskless 

 elephants Tusks do not grow again Use the animal makes of its 

 tusks The trunk and its various uses Supply of water in the animal's 

 stomach Eye and ear The food of elephants Importance of the 

 wind Marching orders : when travelling and when eating Water, 

 mud, and sand baths Intestinal worms Sounds made by elephants 

 Daily habits of these animals Elephants' cemetery Softness of their 

 bones Dead ivory Elephant countries War made upon them every- 

 where Their approaching extinction Accidents caused by elephants 

 The shot at the head and at the heart Elephants' tracks Method of 

 removing tusks The elephant's only enemy The true king of beasts 

 A few words about its domestication. 



