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IN AFRICA 
vance the smaller one ran away but the big cow 
never moved again. She was stone dead. The three 
bullets had struck her, Jimmy’s high as she was 
head on, Fred’s between the eye and ear as she 
swung, and mine just behind the orifice of the ear 
as the head was still further swung by the shock of 
Fred’s bullet. The elephant rested on her four 
knees in an upright position, quite lifelike in ap¬ 
pearance. The small elephant ran off toward those 
that we had seen on our right. I suggested that we 
immediately follow the herd in the hope that a 
young bull might be found among them. So off 
we went and in a few moments we saw them to 
our right, apparently returning to where the cow 
had been killed. It is entirely likely that the big 
broken-tusked cow was going back to make trouble 
for us. Colonel Roosevelt had a similar experience 
with a bull elephant that returned and charged the 
hunters as they were standing about one that they 
had just killed. 
As the elephants moved along slowly we paral¬ 
leled them and studied them as well as we could. 
One was the big cow with the one broken and one 
good tusk. She was leading the group, and was 
doubtless a vicious animal. She was an enormous 
beast, probably over eleven feet in height. Another 
was the half-grown elephant, then a smaller one, 
and lastly a good-sized elephant with two fairly 
good tusks. We tried to determine the sex of this 
last one, I hoping that it was a bull, but fearing 
otherwise. Ake thought it was a cow with tusks 
