The First Bull Elephant 



THE elephant has always profoundly impressed the 

 imagination of mankind. . . . Its huge bulk, its 

 singular form, the value of its ivory, its great intelligence 

 — in which it is only matched, if at all, by the highest 

 apes, and possibly by one or two of the highest car- 

 nivores — and its varied habits all combine to give it an 

 interest such as attaches to no other living creature below 

 the rank of man. . . . The unchecked increase of any 

 big and formidable wild beast, even though not a flesh 

 eater, is incompatible with the existence of man when he 

 has emerged from the lowest stage of savagery. 



— Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's Magazine. 



