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HECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of African Elephant. 



AFRICAN ELEPHANT (Elephas africanus). 



Arba of the Gallas. Tlo in the Barotse country. 



Dakana of the Abyssinians (Dan- TIdo in the Lake Ngami country. 



akil). Zalion of the Abyssinians. 



Marodi of the Somahs. Zcviba of the Swahilis. 



Njovu in the Chilala and Chibisa countries. 



The African elephant, although still abundant in many regions of 

 Central Africa, in the southern part of the Continent is rapidly 

 approaching extinction. A very remarkable exception to this melan- 

 choly process of extermination is, however, to be found in the south 

 and east of Cape Colony, where, since the year 1830, wild elephants 

 have been systematically preserved by Government. Strong troops of 

 these protected elephants still roam the dense and impenetrable jungles 

 of the Addo Bush and the Knysna and Zitzikamma forests. A permit 

 to shoot one of these elephants — costing ;^20 — is to be obtained at 

 Cape Town. Farther inland the ivory-hunters have for a generation 

 past been so actively employed, that, despite the vast numbers of these 



