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RETURN TO LAKE RUDOLPH 
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through their knowledge of the structure of bones, may be in 
a position to kindly elucidate for us. 
Half an hour after starting the next morning, and a little 
before sunrise, two elephants were seen by some of the men 
behind, at the edge of the lake. We in front had not noticed 
them ; perhaps they moved so as to become visible only after 
we had passed the spot whence they could be seen ; at all 
Rhinoceros Skulls and Horns. 
The longest horn of the three measures 40 inches on front curve. 
events, we had unluckily already reached a point from where 
the wind blew dead towards them. I sent the “safari” back 
a little way, and went towards them with my two gun-bearers. 
The elephants—tw'o big bulls—had by this time come up 
from the water, and by the quick step they went off at along 
the shore, in the direction we were going, I could tell that they 
had got our wind and were in full retreat. We had some 
distance to go, and long before we cut their spoor they had 
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