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through their knowledge of the structure of bones, may be in 

 a position to kindly elucidate for us. 



Half an hour after starting the next morning, and a little 

 before sunrise, two elephants were seen by some of the men 

 behind, at the edge of the lake. We in front had not noticed 

 them ; perhaps they moved so as to become visible only after 

 we had passed the spot whence they could be seen ; at all 



Rhinoceros Skulls and Horns. 

 I'he longest horn of the three measures 40 inches on front curve. 



events, we had unluckily already reached a point from where 

 the wind blew dead towards them. I sent the "safari" back 

 a little way, and went towards them with my two gun-bearers. 

 The elephants — two big bulls — had by this time come up 

 from the water, and by the quick step they went off at along 

 the shore, in the direction we were going, I could tell that they 

 had got our wind and were in full retreat. We had some 

 distance to go, and long before we cut their spoor they had 



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