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ference between the two. Of course, an elephant 
with gigantic tusks is at once known to be a bull, 
but if he has small tusks it is a matter of consid¬ 
erable guesswork. 
We could not tell which ones of this herd were 
bulls, but assumed that there must surely be several 
small-sized or young bulls among them. We de- 
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cided to go nearer, knowing that the elephant’s eye¬ 
sight is very poor, and with such a favoring wind 
his sense of smell was useless. It seemed amazing 
that they did not see us as we walked up the slope 
toward them. When a couple of hundred yards 
away we climbed a tree to study them some more. 
They were in three separate groups, each of which 
was clustered sleepy and motionless under the trees. 
They had ceased feeding and had evidently laid up 
