A DEAD ELEPHANT. 
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" October \^th. — Soon after 7 a.m. started with 
boys to hunt. . . Maqueban found the carcass of an 
elephant killed a few days ago. The two teeth — one 
broken, but as heavy as the other — weighed together 
birds' nests. 
20 lbs., as I found afterwards. The boys rushed to 
the carcass, and were soon at work dismembering it. 
It may be one of Nelson's, but my boys think it died 
before Sunday (the day Nelson killed his). A great 
many kites flew sweeping round. It was a regular 
scene, such as one sees in pictures, the Kafirs at 
work cutting off trunk and feet and strips of flesh. 
some similar vegetable substance. The second is ingeniously com- 
posed of the finer portions of reeds, in the manner of close basket- 
work, and is found in great numbers along the banks of rivers, and in 
marshy places, affixed to the rushes. 
