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CAMPING AT MOUNT KENIA 
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I have perhaps described with tiresome minuteness every 
detail of this day’s hunting ; but it was one of such exceptional 
opportunities that it seems worth while to give full particulars 
of all its incidents. I may add that, some time after, some 
natives found the large elephant which I had wounded, dead, 
and I eventually recovered the tusks (though not, unfortunately, 
Native Girls and Women of Tribes near the foot of Mount Kenia. 
(From a Photograph by Dr. Kolb.) 
without rather serious trouble with them), which weighed 
between 80 and 90 lbs. apiece. 
Next day I moved my camp to near the patch of forest 
where I had been so lucky, for the convenience of getting out 
the ivory (which my boys took two days to do), and afterwards 
to a stream close to the extreme base of Mount Kenia, in order 
to hunt in the extensive forest on its lower slopes. I was 
fortunate enough to shoot a giraffe at the stream, just at the 
place where I wanted to camp—one of the three which I found 
there on arriving ahead of my men, and stalked successfully 
