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The adventures of an elephant hunter (1912)

Sutherland, James, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan · leaf 39

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THE HUNTER’S LIFE I I3 nature warns me that I must not tax my energies farther, we start on the return journey to our main camp. Temporarily, the excitement and dangers are over, but a new sense of joy fills the heart, for my men are delighted at the thought of seeing their wives and children or… … and speaking their elephant’s tooth. 13" in length, 3J" in width, about 9 lbs. in language as fluently weight. as themselves, often join in their jesting. They thoroughly appreciate this, and from them I learn what they are unable, if not unwilling, to com¬ municate to most white men. It is to this…

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