Chap. XL 



A NIGHT'S FASTING. 



245 



A shout of exultation rose from the men, who rushed up, and 

 danced round the fallen animal with wild shouts of triumph. 

 When we came up, Tuba Mokoro approached the Doctor, 

 whose Jacob's shell had inflicted a mortal wound behind the 

 orifice of the ear, and, with great self-complacency, said, 

 " You see it was speed that did it — my speed. I kept up 

 while all the others lagged behind, though I fell and hurt my 

 knee. You will give me a cloth, won't you ? " 



The men, having had no meat for the last three or four days, 

 thought that they could eat the elephant all themselves, and 

 were not disposed to let Seabenzo and his people have any ; 

 but, after gorging themselves all night, and grumbling at the 

 English for possessing so little practical sense as to kill an 

 elephant, and then not wait long enough to eat it up, they 

 gave Seabenzo upwards of three-quarters of it, and Ave 

 presented him with the tusks. The proboscis of the African 

 elephant is so full at the insertion into the upper part of 

 the face, that the animal appears to have a very convex 

 forehead. The trunk when cut off close to the bone is so 



Eye to lower jaw 

 Eye to insertion of tail 

 From insertion to end of tail 

 Semi-circumference at mid- 

 dle of chest 



Semi-circumference of abdo- 

 men to middle of back . . 

 From neck to forefoot 

 From abdomen to hindfoot 

 From meatus of ear horizon- 

 tally to external edge 

 Diagonal breadth of ear 

 ' Height from hindfoot 



Measurement of full-grown foetal 

 elephant, having four placentae with 

 cotyledons, and near its full time : — 



Ft 



in. 







16| 



9 



10 



3 



4J 



6 







7 



li 



5 



1 



3 



Ql 



2 



9 



4 



3 



7 



6 



Ft. in. 



Height at withers . . . . 2 6 



Circumference of forefoot . . 1 1 



Height at hindleg 2 5 



From tip of trunk to tip of 



tail 6 



From tip of trunk to eye ..1 7| 

 From eye to the meatus of 



ear 7 J 



Horizontal diameter of ear 



from meatus .. ., ..0 S 

 Diagonal breadth of car ..1 3J 

 Semi-circmnference of chest 1 7 

 Semi-cfrcumference of abdo- 

 men 1 8J 



Length of cord 3 7 



