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ference between the two. Of course, an elephant 

 with gigantic tusks is at once known to be a bull, 

 but if he has small tusks it is a matter of consid- 

 erable guesswork. 



We could not tell which ones of this herd were 

 bulls, but assumed that there must surely be several 

 small-sized or young bulls among them. We de- 



Kongoni on Guard 



cided to go nearer, knowing that the elephant's eye- 

 sight is very poor, and with such a favoring wind 

 his sense of smell was useless. It seemed amazing 

 that they did not see us as we walked up the slope 

 toward them. When a couple of hundred yards 

 away we climbed a tree to study them some more. 

 They were in three separate groups, each of which 

 was clustered sleepy and motionless under the trees. 

 They had ceased feeding and had evidently laid up 



