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little sentiment, as is shown in the following words of Doctor 

 Rainsford:* 



"I should not greatly care to kill any more elephants. 

 They are too big, too old, and too wise to be classed as mere 

 game. As I stood by the side of that vast fallen bulk I 

 realized I had extinguished a life perhaps three times as old 

 as my own. What had not that great beast seen and sur- 

 vived.^ What comings and goings of the tribes? What 

 changes among the petty bands of men.^ It was probably 

 a full-grown elephant when Livingstone first resolutely set 

 his face toward Africa's unknown interior. I felt small and a 

 little guilty." 



In the National Museum at Washington are the three 

 large elephants shot by Colonel Roosevelt in Equatorial 

 Africa in 1909. The tallest of these was a rogue bull, 

 shot in Uganda, and measuring 10 ft. 9 in. in height 

 at the withers. A more bulky though somewhat shorter 

 example of a bull elephant had a height of 10 ft. 6 in., 

 with tusks weighing 65 pounds each; this was the first ele- 

 phant to fall before the redoubtable Colonel's rifle, and was 

 shot on the slopes of Mount Kenia. The third of these 

 Roosevelt bull elephants, shot somewhat later near Meru, 

 had attained a height of 10 ft. 4 in. To these may 

 be added a cow elephant which fell before the rifle of Paul 

 J. Rainey, near Mount Marsabit, on the same expedition. 

 The right tusk of this animal measured 5 ft. 7 in. in length 

 and the left tusk 5 ft. 10 in., each having a diameter of 

 10 in. ; the heavier one weighs 28 pounds.f 



Although in many parts of Africa the wholesale slaughter 

 of elephants has greatly reduced their numbers, they are 

 still fairly plentiful in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, especially 



*Ibid., p. 11782. 



tCommunicated by Dr. R. Rathbun, Director U. S. National Museum, Washington. 

 D.C. 



