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Title: Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution…
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Major A.J. Arnold (and 24 others)
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward, Limited
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Field Museum's Africa Council

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wn by a feeding elephant, or again, a suddensqueal or the rumbling sound which elephants give out when feedingmay be heard, or the elephants may be quietly standing at rest, groupedtogether in the shade of a bower of spreading guda trees ; the movingears, constantly flapping to keep away the flies, showing as blotches ofdull red, the colour of the soil last rolled in, contrasting with the darkerfoliage. If visible, these spots will at once be seen by the keen-eyedSomali hunters. When first sighted the herd will probably be from 100to 150 yards away. A hillock, if one can be found near, is the best placeto reconnoitre from. The farther advance is chiefly a matter of wind, for it is mainly ontheir keen sense of smell that elephants depend for news of impendingdanger. The greatest difficulty is to pick out the elephant to be first attacked—the one which is judged to be the largest bull—without giving the windto any other members of the herd. Great &. Small Game of Africa - Pl. I.
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Common Rhinoceros Head. 5. Holmwoods Rhinoceros Horn. Burchclls Rhinoceros Head. 6. Burchclls Rhinoceros Horn. Common Hippopotamus Head. 7. Hippopotamus Foot. Liberian Hippopotamus Head. 8. Rhinoceros Foot, q. Rhinoceros Foot. The Elephant 33 It will not, with modern rifles, be necessary to approach nearer than30 yards, and shots can be taken, where the openness of the jungle willnot allow of a nearer approach unobserved, from even 80 or 100 yards. Forthe first shot at a quiescent elephant any of the modern small-bore, high-velocity rifles of the Lee-Metford type would be very effective and accuratefor a head-shot ; but for the further attack on a herd, when the disturbedelephants are rushing about the jungle, there is nothing so good in thewriters opinion as a double 8-bore Paradox gun with steel-core bullet,or a double 8 rifle, with at least 10 drs. of powder. Quite recently somegun-makers appear to have contemplated the manufacture of sporting riflesof smaller bore, with new explos

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