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wandered farther away from the settlements to 

 locahties whither it no longer paid to follow them. 

 In the forests and marshes of Shupanga they have 

 found a refuge in which they are but little dis- 

 turbed, and here they will probably linger for 

 many years to come. Curiously enough, the 

 elephant of this part of Africa— and by this part of 

 Africa I mean the whole of the Zambezi from the 

 mouth to Coroabassa, and thence south through 

 the Barud country and the Mozambique Company's 

 territory eastward to the sea — although an immense 

 animal, probably quite as large as, if not larger than, 

 those found in Uganda or Abyssinia, carries dis- 

 appointingly small tusks. I have seen considerable 

 numbers of elephants in all three portions of the 

 large area mentioned, and shot several, but I never 

 remember to have seen or heard of tusks of ivory 

 obtained there which scaled more than fifty or 

 sixty pounds at the most, and I cannot help 

 thinking it extremely probable that where the 

 larger landed associations have not themselves 

 destroyed these magnificent beasts for the sake of 

 the ivory, they have been so destroyed for that 

 reason by natives and other unauthorised persons. 



The only domesticated African elephant of 

 which I have heard, leaving aside the well-known 

 Jumbo of unsaintly and treacherous memory, is 

 one which was given as a present by a former 

 King of Uganda to his brother ruler of Zanzibar. 

 I was informed by his Highness the present 

 Sultan that this animal was sent to India, and was 

 singularly docile, but what its ultimate fate was he 

 was unable to tell me. Since the days of the Cartha- 



