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for their midday rest, although the hour was hardly 

 ten in the morning. 



From our "observation tower" in the tree we 

 studied the three groups as well as we could. So 

 far as we could judge there were at least three bulls 

 of medium size, but as we looked those three lazily 

 moved off toward the group on the extreme left. 

 At that time we were within about a hundred yards 



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The Policemen of the Plains 



of the nearest group with the wind still favorable, 

 and except for one thing we might easily have crept 

 up through the grass to within thirty or forty yards. 

 Directly between us and the elephants were two 

 kongoni, one lying down and the other alert and 

 erect. 



The kongoni is the policeman of the plains. He 

 is the self-appointed guardian of all the other ani- 

 mals, and for some strange, unselfish reason, he 



