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most of the morning through dense jungle of grass & reeds over 10 ft high. Very tiring.

[[underlined]] Nov 20. [[/underlined]]
An eventful day. Sent out Kizii Scouts Early to look for game. They arrived back about 10.45 with news of having seen Elephants 2 or 3 hours away, so had a hasty lunch, packed up & got Safari off at 11.15. Pitched camp at 1 P.m. & went out at 1.15 and got first sight of Elephants about 2.30. As we got closer a wonderful spectacle appeared. We came over a hill into a great valley like an amphitheatre about 1 1/2 miles each way, & on Each side were parties of Elephants. A modest estimate made it 250, but we both think there were nearer 300. 200 stood together in one herd and the rest were scattered about in parties of 15 to 35. Probably very few living men have seen such a sight. The Grass in most places is from 7 to 10 feet high & entwined with Creepers into a dense jungle presenting no difficulties to the Elephants, but terribly tiring to us. But of course there are open spaces with short grass & occasionaly the bare ironstone rocks shew through. The wind was light & very difficult, never blowing from the same quarter for 2 minutes, but