136 ELEPHANTS 
height was 12 feet, but his actual standing height was pre- 
cisely 10 feet 9 inches. He was carefully measured in 1883 at 
Madison Square Garden, New York, by Mr. Robert Gilfort, 
now living in Orange, New Jersey. 
INDIAN ELEPHANT, 
The large species of African elephants have been so long 
and so relentlessly pursued by the murderous ivory-hunters, 
both white and black, that now it is almost an impossible 
task to find a full-grown bull, or to find one with a pair of 
tusks even approaching six feet in length. Possibly the 
species can be perpetuated by the young stock, but all ex- 
perienced stock-breeders surely will regard it as very unlikely. 
