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No. 22,156 號陸拾伍百登弍萬式第 AA24EZ HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929.
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The lordly elephast, feeling death draw near, retirer to a mysterious elephant cemetery to die in lonely grandeur. No” man has yet found one of these ceme- teries, but they tell you that when one is finally located it will enrich the lucky discoverer as handsomely as would the hidden treasures of Captain Kidd. This is an absurd legend. Any man
with practical experience knows that elephant GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS, tusks exposed to the weather will scarcely outlast the fierce tropical.
LITS, PEPING. rain and sun of a single year, for ivory quickly deteriorates.
The calf elephant was in dire | thirst, wages battle for bis very which the practical collector takes perit of making a dinner for a life. The first warning of this lion, but his mother had sensed the magnificent onslaught came just danger in time. The calf had fallen before dawn. Out upon the dim behind this elders as they slowly air there bellowed the magnificent made their way, along an African trumpetings of many elephants. watercourse, explains the New York | These mixed in a moment with low, Literary Digest and the lion, steal throaty growls, which now and ing silently on his padded feet, had then gave way to shrill squeaks. been about to seize the youngster The elephant has four distinct cries, before the herd should know it.
No man who has spent most of For a moment the mother quiver.his life collecting wild animals ed with a sense of peril to her could hug his cat when such majes young. In the next second, writes tie battle signs were calling him J. L. Buck, the veteran wild cross a hundred yards of forest. animal collector and trainer, in the anatched my gun and piled others into the willing arms of Hector, New York Herald Tribune magamy head boy, and thus we hurried sine, she was thudding toward the through woods to the lookout point, baby in hot aager Blood, among high above the one water-hole in the elephants is certainly thicker than water, for all the cows of the leagues of weary land. herd-six or seven-enme pounding up to aid the mother," in a manner described thus by Mr. Buck:-
"In a Bush they had separated the imperilled 'baby from the lion. Then they wine thundering into the woods....There followed such a pounding and stamping and snap- ping of tree boughs as accompanies a battle of thirst-mad herds by a water-hole. They did not catch the enemy, but those maddened mothers ravaged that spot of woods for many yards about. In anger an elephant will stamp and destroy, wrecking its rage on inanimate abjects when the enemy is out of reach."
Family Feeling.
"Another legend at which I used The scone we looked down upon to scoff aays that the cow elephant was sublime, yet grim. A band retires to a remote spot when she elephants-six or seven-stood begins to feel the pangs of birth. shoulder to shoulder in a solid Other members of her herd form a guard before the water-hole. Out guard of protection and remain of the woods pushed a second band, with her until the little pink calf led by a gaunt, determined female. car toddle off at her side. I doubt- With trumpetings and waving led the escort part of the story' until trunks and cocked ears, these two I stumbled on
conclave of groups faced each other.
elephants in a remote valley of the West African Kameruns.
The Stampede.
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"I glanced about at the dis tribution of the forces.' One band evidently had come down to drink at the water-hole, and had been surprised by the second group: Even then, while the large ele phants guarded it, several little ones were drinking. The two bands Of all the animals of Africa, the wavered. for a moment, while the air was rent with fierce cacophony. usually amiable elephant seems to
"And then, as if the great female possess the most intense family feeling, Mr. Buck tells us further.who led the second herd had given The elephant mother cuddles and a signal, all of them stamped for cajoles and encourages, smacks and ward. Some held their heads down, admonishes her calves. And all Bank or front of the foe. Others
with ugly tusks ready to spike | day long, through heat and swamp held heads high, with trunks out and desert, her protecting truak is fung to batter their opponents. ever active keeping the little ones within safe distance."
Mr. Busk tells of it in these words:***
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Minding the Baby, Scratched by thoras, bitten by insects, and burned by thirst, we had fought our way through tangled land to reach the edge of a sparse wood, The wind veered towards us, hearing heady smells to make the delicate nostrils of Hector dilate with inquiry.
Elephants!" he whispered shortly. Further on we caught the of elephants, subdued murmurs peacefully en famille. Though we were now very near, they were un- was blowing our way. And, as we aware of our presence, for the wind reached the edge of the wood, we spied a strangely peaceful sight.
A large cow elephant, standing under a tree, turned her ears lazily towards us She was one of a
Suddenly
herd.
she
waved her trunk up and down. sniffing the air, and stiffened. Out went her ears. She cocked her head in inquiry.
Followed fiteen minutes of magnificent and terrific battle, in So, we learn, battles between which great elephants attacked, elephant herds ar rare.
The tottered, fell, and rose again to powerful writer, indeed, has witnessed only renew the battle. All through the one, and it was" brought on by un- melee the earth below seemed to usual conditions.
quiver, and when the fight was pushed into the wood opposite my elevated lookout, several trees went "It was in a high section of the Iurashing. One old fellow emitted African Kameruns when I was a last bellow as he was gored following far different quarry that through the side and toppled over. chance took me by the hand one His moans and the hysteria of the morning and led the way to a sub- survivora waxed and waned until lime and terrific battle of the the band first at the water-hole had elephants. The country was high finally repulsed their attackers. and hot and arid For weeks a "Bleeding and squeaking, the de- mereiless sun had dried up the feated group turned into the woods, water-holes, until gaunt creatures perhaps to seek some remote retreat of the wild travelled anguished in which to die of their wounds days for a drink, many of them and thirst. The victors turned dying before their thirst was slakedback to the water-bole, and after A fierce desire to reach water was ali had drunk their fill they dis the absorbing passion of all wild appeared into the woods, departing in a miracle of silence-for the huge elephant can equal the slinking leopard in stealthy going when safety calls for quiet."
crentures.
Battle for Water.
"In such a parched country the only battle between elephant herds that I ever have witnessed hook
Travellers' Tales.
Then she trumpeted. Each ele- phant, stopped his byplay and took his place as if at command of some master circus man, all of them in- terposing their bulk between us and the elephans I had only glimpsed. I watched, transfixed, my gun ready in case they should start our way. Quickly the rearmost el- phant got to her feet and retired into the woods By her side was a toddling calf. The others followed, four of them standing guard unti! she was well into the woods. So perhaps there is something to that tale of how the solicitous herd stands by when a baby is born.
Though I have witnessed only one fight between herds of elephants, I have assisted' at many fights between individual elephants. All of these, I am persuaded, had their "spin beginnings in some phase of family
the very earth. The ordinarily Old-timers in Africa kindly elephant, maddened by marvellous yarns about elephants, I feeling."
Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(July 23.)
World Theatre: "The Belle of Broadway."
Star Theatre: "The Auction Block."
Property Auction (22 and 24 Lyndhurst Terrace) Lammert Bros., 3 p.m.
Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.18.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,
Tides:High: 12.00 am. and Billiards League:-C. and P.O.'s | 10.10a.m.; Low: 3,34 a.m. and 5.30 Club . Police Reserves, Somersets P
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Billiards League:-Police Res . C. & P.Q's Club, Buffalo Club Somersets, K.D.S.B. v. Royal Engineers, St. Patricks v. Gar
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World Theatre: "Square Crooks." Star Theatre: is The
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Star Theatre The Auction Block"
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Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30
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