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seem at last to have been used solely for the purposes 

 of war ; and when they were found wanting as 

 military machines it is possible that their usefulness 

 for other purposes was forgotten, or that other animals, 

 easier to rear, though less highly specialised for use 

 in tropical jungles, had taken their place. Then the 

 African elephant became merely an object of the 

 chase to the negro and Arab ivory-hunter. 



