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IN AFRICA 



knew that some invisible hostile influence was 

 abroad in the land, but they could not locate in 

 which direction it lay. We saw the sensitive trunks 

 feeling for the scent and saw the big ears moving 

 uneasily back and forth. One large cow with a 

 broken tusk was facing us, vaguely conscious that 

 danger lay in that direction. And then, by some 



The Rear-guard 



code of signals known only to the elephant world, 

 the greater number of elephants moved off down 

 the slope and up the opposite slope. Only the big, 

 aggressive cow and four or five smaller animals re- 

 mained behind as a rear-guard. She stood as she 

 had stood for some moments, gazing directly at us 

 and nervously waving her ears and trunk. 



Akeley climbed to the top of an ant-hill and 

 made some photographs showing the big cow and 



