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sleeves, and set to work with them. Before five minutes 
were over he was up to his elbows in blood. 
The difficulty was to get the carcass off the skin 
after it was cut loose ; besides, the huge head and feet 
were to be kept attached to the skin, and to pull the 
skin from under the great carcass a team of fourteen 
oxen had to be brought from the camp to drag it out; 
and it took more than twenty-five men to lift the head 
and skin into a truck-wagon to carry it to the camp. 
We all then adjourned to the second killed ele¬ 
phant, which the Prince tried to photograph, on the 
dry system ; but the apparatus was out of order, or the 
chemicals not quite right, so the picture did not suc¬ 
ceed. The second elephant was not quite so large as the 
one killed in the open, the dimensions of which were 
as follows: it stood thirteen feet high, was thirty- 
two feet long from trunk to tail, and was twenty- 
eight feet round the girth; the tusks were about six 
feet long, and the head and skin weighed over two 
tons. 
It was a grand sight to see the two heads brought 
into camp, and when the ‘ Bacoon ’ again steamed back 
into Simon’s Bay, with one head at the fore and the 
other before the mainmast of the ship, thousands of 
people on shore cheered the Prince on his success and 
return from his first elephant-hunt in South Africa. 
On crossing the bar at the mouth of the Knysna, 
