IV 
KOM-KOM 
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Either from a profound working acquaintance with 
the behaviour of spirits, or by message promptly 
received from the other world, he must have 
learned that the desired end had been achieved, for, 
immediately on the conclusion of this ceremony, he 
made a solid meal on Kom- 
Kom’s toasted heart and 
energetically assisted his 
three wives to appropriate 
as much of the meat as 
they possibly could, after 
the manner of the most 
ordinary of mortals. 
For such an exception¬ 
ally large elephant, Kom- 
Kom’s tusks were com¬ 
paratively small, only scaling 
65 and 67 lbs. respectively. 
There is no doubt that he 
had acquired his cunning 
0 kom-kom’s tail. 
at the expense of native 
elephant hunters, for he bore in evidence of the 
fact the scars of many old wounds inflicted by 
their bullets, seventeen of which missiles the 
natives found when cutting up his tough old 
carcase. He was also endowed with a charac¬ 
teristic which I have seen in no other elephant 
