A MATERNITY BED WHERE A YOUNG ELEPHANT WAS 15()RN AND CARED EUR DURING 

 THE EIRST WEEK OR TEN DAYS OF ITS LIFE (SEE PAGE 798) 



This was found b\- the expedition while traveling by compass on Mount Kenia, well away 



from all trails 



or ill the forests of Mount Elgon, for in 

 former days great numbers had inhab- 

 ited the rich feeding grounds of the El- 

 gon forest, as evidenced by the old pits 

 (traps), scarred trees, and decaying • 

 bones. We inspected more than 100 ele- 

 phants, however, without finding a trace 

 of a single large specimen. 



.We journeyed to the summit of Mount 

 Elgon from the south and down to the 

 east without finding the least recent trace 

 of elephants until we had returned to the 

 bush country of the plateau. Then we 

 proceeded to Uganda, secured porters at 

 Entebbe, marched along the Hoima Road 

 to the Kafu River, down the Kafu to 

 where the old Masinde-Kampala Road 

 crosses it, then to Masinde, seeing no ele- 

 phants during the two weeks' journey 

 ( see page 790). 



A\'e then devoted a month to hunting 

 in the region of the \'ictoria Xile be- 



tween Masinde and Foweira. This is a 

 region of big elephants, where many 

 splendid tuskers have been taken in the 

 past, but really good ones are now very 

 rare. On this occasion we shot two bulls, 

 enormous in size, but with tusks weigh- 

 ing only from 75 to 80 pounds each. 



M.OUNTAIN-CLIMBING ELEPHANTS 



About the middle of April, as I was 

 suffering from physical disabilities that 

 made the preparation of an elephant skin 

 impossible, we decided to return to the 

 Uasin Gishu Plateau, where in the more 

 healthful highlands I might hope for re- 

 covery. , Though the rains were on at 

 this time, we found no elephants on the 

 plateau, so we devoted 20 days to lion 

 hunting with a party of Nandi warriors 

 for the purpose of making motion-pic- 

 ture records of the spectacular sport of 

 lion spearing. About the middle of A lay 

 we trekked across country to Mount Ke- 



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