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IN AFRICA 
on one side, a dense tangle of trees on two other 
sides, and with a narrow open aisle between it and 
ourselves. The two smaller elephants were at its 
side. To see to fire I had to step out from the tree 
and expose myself, and as I stepped out the 
wounded beast saw me and reared its head as if to 
make a final rush. I fired point-blank; it swung 
around and a second shot sent it down. Hassan 
grabbed my arm and told me to hurry back before 
the two smaller elephants charged. If they did so 
it might be necessary to shoot them, which we didn’t 
want to do. So we ran swiftly back to the edge of 
the river and waited. But all was quiet, and after a 
time we climbed across the river on the interlacing 
branches, circled around to where the elephants 
were visible just across the stream and scared the 
two smaller ones away. Once more we swung across 
from branch to branch over the swift waters of the 
river and reached the other bank where lay the 
mountainous bulk of the dead elephant. It was a 
young bull about eight feet high and with two well¬ 
shaped tusks twenty-two inches long in the open, 
or approximately thirty-eight inches in all. 
Sulimani was sent to notify Mr. Akeley and Mr. 
Clark, and after a long search found them, and to¬ 
gether they arrived a couple of hours later, followed 
by gunbearers and saises. Mr. Stephenson had 
gone back to camp to see that salt and supplies, with 
one tent, were sent out. 
Then began the work of measuring the elephant, 
a work that must be done most thoroughly when the 
