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limit of a full-sized “ herd-bull’s ” teeth. 1 The rest they had 
extracted and put together ready to be fetched. The Ndorobos 
who were up there, eating and curing the meat of those 
elephants, had found one more, making fourteen in all as the 
total bag for that day. The one found by Squareface, when 
he went back the day but one after our shoot, was clearly the 
first bull I had shot at, as I recognised the teeth, without 
A Good D'Xy’s Work with Elephants. 
(From a Photograph by the Author.) 
doubt, by their shape and general appearance. There is a 
great deal of character and individuality in tusks ; and I 
always find I can tell which elephant, of several I may have 
shot, any pair that is afterwards recovered belonged to. I 
afterwards photographed, with my hand camera, the results in 
ivory of my Barasaloi day, piled in front of my tent. 
As Squareface reported that he had seen the spoor of a 
few elephants coming down the Barasaloi valley, I went with 
1 By herd-bulls ” I mean the breeding males, such as are found consorting with the 
herds of cows. The old fellows, with heavier ivory, associate with their peers in separate 
herds. I infer from these facts that a bull elephant is in his prime when his tusks 
Weigh about 50 lbs. apiece. 
