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SAVAGE SUDAN 



To tackle elephants in such ground would involve extreme 

 danger. The beasts are secured by strongholds of cane- 

 jungle impervious to man, flanked on one side by the river, 

 on the other by sudd and swamp, every passage and path- 

 way intimately known to them. My own scheme (should 

 it ever materialise) is to lay the gyassa hard by say a 

 couple of miles down-wind and then to work-in a shot 

 at close-quarters from the dinghy afloat. The plan might 

 demand some patience. 





C. " EXPLOSIVE." THE ELEPHANT GETS OUR WIND. 



