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vance the smaller one ran away but the big cow 

 never moved again. She was stone dead. The three 

 bullets had struck her, Jimmy's high as she was 

 head on, Fred's between the eye and ear as she 

 swung, and mine just behind the orifice of the ear 

 as the head was still further swung by the shock of 

 Fred's bullet. The elephant rested on her four 

 knees in an upright position, quite lifelike in ap- 

 pearance. The small elephant ran off toward those 

 that we had seen on our right. I suggested that we 

 immediately follow the herd in the hope that a 

 young bull might be found among them. So off 

 we went and in a few moments we saw them to 

 our right, apparently returning to where the cow 

 had been killed. It is entirely likely that the big 

 broken-tusked cow was going back to make trouble 

 for us. Colonel Roosevelt had a similar experience 

 with a bull elephant that returned and charged the 

 hunters as they were standing about one that they 

 had just killed. 



As the elephants moved along slowly we paral- 

 leled them and studied them as well as we could. 

 One was the big cow with the one broken and one 

 good tusk. She was leading the group, and was 

 doubtless a vicious animal. She was an enormous 

 beast, probably over eleven feet in height. Another 

 was the half-grown elephant, then a smaller one, 

 and lastly a good-sized elephant with two fairly 

 good tusks. We tried to determine the sex of this 

 last one, I hoping that it was a bull, but fearing 

 otherwise. Ake thought it was a cow with tusks 



