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SAVAGE SUDAN 
To tackle elephants in such ground would involve extreme 
danger. The beasts are secured by strongholds of cane- 
jungle impervious to man, flanked on one side by the river, 
on the other by sudd and swamp, every passage and path¬ 
way intimately known to them. My own scheme (should 
it ever materialise) is to lay the gyassa hard by — say a 
couple of miles down-wind — and then to work-in a shot 
at close-quarters from the dinghy afloat. The plan might 
demand some patience. 
C.—“Explosive.”—The Elephant gets our wind. 
