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SAVAGE SUDAN 
February 17th deserves a note:—“At 10.30 passed 
within 100 yards of twenty-six elephants, mostly cows, 
all egret-covered, but followed by two fair bulls. The 
whole shore hereabouts was trampled down, the canes 
smashed and broken off precisely at the height where 
succulent growth begins. Ere I had completed this note 
in diary, a second herd of nineteen was descried, and while 
still watching these, a mile beyond, stood a cow and 
calf; while only a few minutes later, and close by the 
“ Disturbed but not Dismayed.” 
(Elephants near Malek, February I2th, 1913.) 
river, I espied the most magnificent bull-elephant I had 
then seen. His tusks could not have scaled less than 
200 lb. the pair. In each case the elephants were attended 
by egrets (Ardea bubulcus); indeed it is safe to say that 
wherever these birds are seen hovering and alighting 
among io-foot canes, there also are elephants, otherwise 
invisible among the tall covert.” 
Another interesting interview:—-“On west, a herd of 
thirty, with one big bull, some 200 yards back from 
bank. When the ship was right abreast the whistle was 
sounded gently. The herd retired ; but the bull—hitherto 
somnolent—after erecting his huge ears to full stretch 
