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and gazing intently for some ten seconds, threw up his 
trunk, trumpeted, and charged directly towards the ship. 
A deep khor, half-way, stopped him and he stood, still 
furious and screaming, on its further bank; but how 
Interesting would have been the upshot had there been 
no obstructive khor! A great bull-elephant posed thus 
in full defiance of man, surely affords as imposing a figure 
as anything in the animal-world. He stands well over 
Bull Elephant—200 lb. Ivory. 
South of Gondokoro, February 14th, 1913. (Far more egrets rode on his back 
than I can depict.) 
12 feet forward, and the huge ears spread out laterally to 
a similar width. While their lord thus defied creation, 
his more timid consorts had turned, and now crept back 
alongside him. 
During this voyage I counted, between the Maya 
Assignora and .Rejaf, and back—say 1000 miles in all- 
over two hundred elephants within view, and there were 
very many others besides, concealed in the covert. [In 
1919 within the same limits, we counted well over one 
hundred elephants.] 
