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limit of a full-sized " herd-bull's " teeth.^ The rest they had 

 extracted and put together ready to be fetched. The Ndorobos 

 who were up there, eating and curing the meat of those 

 elephants, had found one more, making fourteen in all as the 

 total bag for that day. The one found by Squareface, when 

 he went back the day but one after our shoot, was clearly the 

 first bull I had shot at, as I recognised the teeth, without 



A Good Days Work with Elephants. 



(Prom a Photograph by the Author.) 



doubt, by their shape and general appearance. There is a 

 great deal of character and individuality in tusks ; and I 

 always find I can tell which elephant, of several I may have 

 shot, any pair that is afterwards recovered belonged to. I 

 afterwards photographed, with my hand camera, the results in 

 ivory of my Barasaloi day, piled in front of my tent. 



As Squareface reported that he had seen the spoor of a 

 few elephants coming down the Barasaloi valley, I went with 



^ By " herd-bulls" I mean the breeding males, such as are found consorting with the 

 herds of cows. The old fellows, with heavier ivory, associate with their peers in separate 

 herds. I infer from these facts that a bull elephant is in his prime when his tusks 

 weigh about 50 lbs. apiece. 



