DEVASTATION BY FXEPIi ANTS >J.: '■ . - 



In this garden during the night previous, elephants had destroyed a large plantain grove 

 and broken down fifty or more bark cloth trees averaging a foot in diameter. Elephants come 

 in herds to villages deserted because of sleeping sickness. The damage is usually accom- 

 plished by herds containing no large ivory, and which consequently have been unmolested by 

 Inmters until they are contemptuous of man (see page 805). y 



A GREEN ACACIA TREE 1 5 INCHES IN DIAMETER BROKEN DOWN BY A SINGLE 

 ELEPHANT, STRIPPED OF LEAVES AND SMALL BRANCHES 



T have seen a small elephant break a 6-inch tr^e, jiot-by-piiUing with trunk or ramming 

 it, but with a side thrust of one tusk, using the trunk only to hold the tree from slipping^ 

 along the tusk. 



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