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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
CHAP. 
I did not stay long admiring this last prize after Juma had 
cut off his tail. He had fine tusks, of fair length and thick ; 
the thicker of the two measured 1 foot 8^ inches in circum¬ 
ference just outside the lip. Then we went back to the 
first two, which we had hardly glanced at yet. They 
proved about as I had judged. The one with the whitest 
ivory (the second killed) had teeth hardly as thick as the last, 
but about on a par otherwise. The old fellow had very long 
tusks, though slightly thinner than the others, the right a good 
deal worn down, but his left the longest I had ever shot. 1 He 
had no hair on his tail : evidently a patriarch. Then I was 
not sorry to make for camp—luckily not very far off—for I 
was tired and sore, and the sun was extremely hot. I felt 
very pleased with my morning’s work. I had accomplished 
it in what I considered a workmanlike manner ; not wasting 
many cartridges nor letting my game go far after being struck, 
and, above all, wounding none that escaped. The fourth 
elephant I had no desire to harm. 
I had now killed five more bull elephants of the largest size, 
whose ten heavy tusks would require as many of my best 
porters to carry them—a good many more than I had “ empty 
hands,” as the loads were at present arranged. It would there¬ 
fore require a good deal of scheming and contriving to enable 
us to take these ; and to take them I was determined. The 
problem how to make two dozen porters carry thirty loads 
would obviously have defied my mathematics, had it not been 
for the fortunate circumstance that I had a number of spare 
donkeys. Even thus it was not so simple as it may seem ; 
for donkeys can only carry suitable loads and cannot possibly 
bear large tusks ; moreover, pads, etc., are needed. However, 
the difficulties were eventually overcome, so as to leave sufficient 
1 This tusk weighed 117^ lbs., and only lost ij lbs. in drying. Its present weight is 
thus 116 lbs. It measures exactly 9 feet. Its fellow weighed, when got out, 109 lbs. 
Those of the other two weighed 117 lbs. and 104 lbs. ; and 96 lbs. and 95^ lbs. An 
outline of the first is shown, together with others of my finest tusks, in the drawing, 
p. 422. 
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