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amine them with our glasses. One seemed to have 
no tusks, but we finally saw that it had very small 
ones. The other and larger one had one good tusk 
and one that was broken off. After about twenty 
minutes we left our horses and with only our gun- 
bearers moved across toward them, thinking that 
there must he others that we had not yet seen. The 
wind was had, sometimes sweeping up in our direc¬ 
tion through the depression between the two slopes 
and a moment later coming from another direction. 
At one time the wind blew from us directly toward 
the elephants and we expected to see them take 
alarm and run away. But they did not. We circled 
around and approached them from a better direc¬ 
tion and advanced to within a couple of hundred 
yards without being detected. We then stopped for 
a conference. If there was a young bull I was to 
kill it for the Akeley group; if there was a large 
bull Stephenson was to kill it for himself; if there 
were only cows we were not to shoot unless abso¬ 
lutely necessary. In this event, Akeley was to take 
his camera, and with “Fred,” “Jimmy” Clark, 
and I as escorts with our double-barreled cordite 
rifles, was to advance until he could get a photo¬ 
graph that would show an elephant the full size of 
the plate. If the elephants charged we were to yell 
and try to turn them without shooting; if they came 
on we were to shoot to hurt, hut not to kill. 
Fred was on one side of “Ake,” Jimmy on an¬ 
other, and I on Fred’s left. Thus we slowly moved 
toward the elephants. A reedbuck was startled out 
