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and gazing intently for some ten seconds, threw up his 

 trunk, trumpeted, and charged directly towards the ship. 

 A deep khor, half-way, stopped him and he stood, still 

 furious and screaming, on its further bank ; but how 

 interesting would have been the upshot had there been 

 no obstructive khor ! A great bull-elephant posed thus 

 in full defiance of man, surely affords as imposing a figure 

 as anything in the animal-world. He stands well over 



BULL ELEPHANT 200 LB. IVORY. 



South of Gondokoro, February I4th, 1913. (Far more egrets rode on his back 

 than I can depict.) 



1 2 feet forward, and the huge ears spread out laterally to 

 a similar width. While their lord thus defied creation, 

 his more timid consorts had turned, and now crept back 

 alongside him. 



During this voyage I counted, between the Maya 

 Assignora and Rejaf, and back say 1000 miles in all 

 over two hundred elephants within view, and there were 

 very many others besides, concealed in the covert. [In 

 1919 within the same limits, we counted well over one 

 hundred elephants.] 



