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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
J. P. HILL, F.R.S. (Jodrell Professor of Zoo- 
logy in the University of London). 
W. E. HOYLE, D.Sc. (Director National 
Museum of Wales). 
ARTHUR KEITH, F.R.S. (Hunterian Pro- 
fessor and Conservator of the Museum of 
the Royal College of Surgeons). 
J. GRAHAM KERR, F.R.S. (Regius Pro- 
fessor of Zoology, University ofi Glas- 
gow). 
E. W. MACBRIDE, F.R.S. (Professor of 
Zoology in the Imperial College of 
Science). 
W. C. McINTGSH, L.R.S. (Emeritus Pro- 
fessor of Natural History in the Univer- 
sity of St. Andrews). 
J. E, MARR, F.R.S. (Woodwardian Profes- 
sor of Geology, University of Cambridge) 
P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, C.B.E., 
F.R.S. (Secretary, Zoological Society of 
London). 
E. B. POULTON, F.R.S. (Hope Professor 
of Zoology in the University of Oxford). 
R. C. PUNNETT, F.R.S. (Arthur Balfour 
Professor of Genetics in the University 
Of Cambridge). 
A. EL SHIPLEY, F.R.S. (Master of Christ's 
College, Cambridge, and Reader of Zoo- 
logy in the University). 
W. J. SOLLAS, F.R.S. (Professor of Geo- 
logy in the University of Oxford). 
(Sir) JETHRO J. H. TEALL, F.R.S. (lately 
Director of the Geological Survey of Gt. 
Britain). 
J. ARTHUR THOMSON, LL.D., (Professor 
of Natural History in the University of 
Aberdeen). 
February 27th, 1919. 
THE ADDO ELEPHANTS. 
A DISAPPEARING TRIBE. 
These elephants have no relation, as the title 
would seem to> convey, either to a puff-adder or 
to a sum in addition, but are tht tenants by right 
of occupation, extending over one hundred years, 
of the woods, valleys, hills aod laagtes of the 
Addo Bush, and of all that territory extending 
from Sand Flats on the East to Uitenhage, and 
from Sundays River near Barkly Ridge to the 
Zuurberg; including such kloofs and strips of 
wood as may offer them shelter in their excur- 
sions east into Alexandria, or west into the forests 
of Zitzikamma; though the westward road of re 
entry has been sadly euchred by the intrusion of 
roads, railways, and farmsteads. 
When Van Riebeek came to- Table Bay ele- 
phant visited French Hoek to breed, and the 
mountain path they followed over beyond Keer- 
weder is still pointed out as a fine engineering 
feat in road-building, and when the British Sett- 
lers entered into possession 1 of Lower Albany they 
gazed with awe on procession of elephant march- 
ing in or out of the dense Kowie Bush, while the 
Knysna Forest still carry signs of the pits dug 
by Bushmen to trap a mountain of meat that 
would last the tribe for a month's succulent feast- 
ing. 
As settlement extended the elephant left the 
Knysna and the Kowie Bush for the Addo domain, 
which lies about half-day between, and in the 
Addo Bush they have remained to breed in a 
state of growing irritation at the unseemly intru- 
sion of mtn, cattle and offensive motor cars that 
pollute the pure air. 
Between the Addo elephants and man all 
friendly relations have been suspended, culminat- 
ing in the stern order issued by a soul-less Gov- 
trnment that 25 of the original occupants be shot 
by a given number of nominated sportsmen. To 
this act of open enmity the elephant last week 
answered by drinking up all the water in the dam 
of Mr. Harvey, a local farmer, having first made 
a stategic feint against the camp of certain con- 
tractors working on the Sundoys River Settle- 
ment. Apparently they regard Mr. Harvey's dam 
and fields as the key to the enemy's position, for, 
at the beginning of last year, the writer saw 
where a strip of the farm wire fencing had been 
broken down by a bull which had gently leant 
against the posts, and heard stories of periodic 
visits to the dam. 
At the Addo' station adjoining, there is a pad- 
dock known as the Bull's Camp, because a lone 
bull used to walk through the fence under the 
mistaken but quite natural idea that the noisy 
railway engine was a fire-breathing rival. A few 
years ago a huge bull took possession of the line 
between Wankie and Victoria Falls, and offered 
battle to a whole train. After a violent collision 
the fight went against him, and one of his tremen- 
dous feet figured as the prized possession of the 
nearest ganger. The warrior of Bull's Camp ap- 
parently decided that he was giving away too 
much weight, and retired from the ring, probably 
to lead an attack on Mr. Harvey's dam. 
There has been a delay in the execution of the 
doomed twenty-five, and no wonder, since the 
Addo Bush was even too uninviting for Frederick 
Courtney Selous. The story goes that Selous 
