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leaving the Ituri river, in the following terms :—“On 
the road before leaving the bush we passed a place 
where an elephant spear had fallen to the ground, and 
buried itself so deep that three men were unable to 
heave it out. Such a force, we argued, would have 
slain an elephant on the instant. (April 8, 1888.)” 
In some districts the natives kill elephants in 
enormous numbers and without discrimination, not for 
the tusks merely, but for the meat and hides. In 1895 
the Homr and Rizighat Arabs killed about 800 elephants. 
The Homr kdled 87 in one day. (Soudan Reports for 
1895, p. 129.) 
Many years ago there was an African elephant in 
the menagerie of the Zoological Society, London, which 
attained some notoriety under the name of Jumlio. 
This animal, when in his prime, possessed two broken 
tusks which jDrojected through the skin of tbe cheeks. 
The stunted condition of the tusks was due to the fact 
that in a fit of passion (must) Jumbo broke his tusks 
within their sockets. This led to the formation of an 
abscess, and the elephant became so ill that it seemed 
likely to die. A. D. Bartlett, the able superintendent 
of the Gardens at that time, attempted to open the 
abscess by thrusting a spear into it from a loft in the 
elephant-house, but only succeeded in making a deep 
cut in the hide. Jumbo could not be persuaded to go 
near the gallery again. Subsequently Mr. Bartlett 
fashioned a steel instrument about eighteen inches long. 
One end was hook-shaped, and the inside edge of this 
hook was ground sharp like a knife. The lower end 
was ring-shaped, and to it a stout cord was tied. 
Bartlett, with the assistance of the elephant-keeper, 
adroitly slipped the hook of the instrument into the 
slit in the hide made at the first attack, and, by 
hanging on the rope, forced this crude knife into the 
abscess and let out a large quantity of blood and pus. 
A quarter of an hour later, the elephant, sensible of 
relief, willingly knelt down and allowed them to syringe 
