Up against it in Nigeria . IVORIES AND FOOT OF BIG ELEPHANT.(Geidam croc. in foreground.). MELBOURNE INMAN AND IVORIES OF ROGUE ELEPHANT! BORNU 139 through his hands. My three little nieces couldstand inside it quite comfortably. As for theears, I propped one up, and it afforded me excellentshelter ! I now left the spoils and went off to find myconvoy, whom I had ordered to follow along theKauwa-Seyoram road, where I picked them upabout one oclock. On our return to the sceneof action, a bizarre and almost pathetic spectaclemet our gaze. Over the corpse of the smallerelephant, mounting guard as
Up against it in Nigeria . IVORIES AND FOOT OF BIG ELEPHANT.(Geidam croc. in foreground.). MELBOURNE INMAN AND IVORIES OF ROGUE ELEPHANT! BORNU 139 through his hands. My three little nieces couldstand inside it quite comfortably. As for theears, I propped one up, and it afforded me excellentshelter ! I now left the spoils and went off to find myconvoy, whom I had ordered to follow along theKauwa-Seyoram road, where I picked them upabout one oclock. On our return to the sceneof action, a bizarre and almost pathetic spectaclemet our gaze. Over the corpse of the smallerelephant, mounting guard as it were at somesolemn lying-in-state, stood two of its erstwhilemates, mute and absolutely motionless. Silentas carven images they faced us, giving no indica-tion as to whether their feelings were those ofmere curiosity, sullen defiance, or abject as much in deference to the mourners asby way of precaution, I retreated to a distancewhere I could watch the wake in sympathy andsafety. But news in the Dark Continent travels likelightning—especially news of meat in famine
Size: 1845px × 1354px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidupagainstiti, bookyear1922
