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their trunks—nothing could have "saved us. Picking 
out three bulls from among forty beasts necessarily 
involves risk. 
The day’s bag thus totalled— 
4 elephants, 
1 rhinoceros. 
Estimated dead-weight, 25 tons; actual weight of 
ivory brought into camp, 300 lbs.; value, say, £200 
sterling ! 
That afternoon and the following day we spent in 
measuring and photographing our prizes. Of the four 
elephants, one only admitted of accurate dimensions 
being taken. This, by good luck, was the biggest bull 
of all, which lay fully extended on his broadside—the 
other three having fallen either upright or in such 
positions in the bog, with legs bent or buried beneath 
them, that measurements were impossible. 
The following figures, taken conjointly with the 
photographs herein reproduced, should serve to give 
some idea of the size of this giant of the modern world. 
Elephant Bull. 
ft. 
in. 
Height in straight line (shoulder) 
. 11 
1 
Length, tip trunk to tip tail 
. 24 
3 
Girth at shoulder 
. 14 
10 
„ of foreleg at upper part 
5 
8 
„ „ forefoot. 
4 
10 
Ear, horizontal width. 
3 
,, vertical height . 
5 
It should be added that an elephant measuring 
11 ft. at withers will probably stand 12 ft., or possibly 
13, in front , when aroused and with head erect, as those 
two stood before me to-day. Their huge ears, in ad¬ 
dition, each spreading out near 4 ft. laterally, give the 
elephant an apparent width of, say, 10 ft., by a height 
of 13 ft. ! See frontispiece. 
The tusks of my monster bull were a beautifully 
symmetrical pair, the longer measuring 7 ft. 1 in., by 
17J ins. in girth. They weighed 137 lbs. the pair. 
