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THE STRUGGLE OF THE TITANS 
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wide made by his opponent’s tusk, and from which 
he had evidently lost a large quantity of blood, the 
surrounding grass being spattered with gore. From 
the trampled condition of the ground, it was evident 
that there had been some preliminary skirmishing 
before we had arrived on the scene. The tusk of 
the smaller animal was broken in two places, but the 
first piece, forming the tip, we never found. From 
the accompanying photograph, depicting the middle 
portion of the tusk, the reader can form some idea 
of the tremendous force brought into play to produce 
such a fracture in so tough a material as ivory. 
As there were no females present or in the 
vicinity, the tussle between those two bull elephants 
cannot be ascribed to jealousy—that prime incen¬ 
tive to most of the fighting done by animals of every 
species—and unless they were quarrelling over some 
absent love, I must admit that 1 cannot explain 
‘ what they fought each other for.’ 
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