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walls of vegetation. Most of the bushes are black¬ 
berry and are thorny. 
The elephants in their centuries of travel about 
the slopes have made trails through this dense bush, 
and it is only by following these trails that one can 
reach the upper heights of the mountain. Above 
Following the Trail 
the bush belt comes the great forest belt, sublimely 
grand in its hugeness and beauty, and above this 
belt comes the encircling band of bamboo forest 
that reaches up to the timber line. There are prob¬ 
ably five hundred thousand acres of forest country 
in which the Kenia elephant may live and wander 
and bring up his children. He has made trails that 
weave and wind through the twilight shades of the 
