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stores are getting short & our time shorter still. Elephant hunting is all very well if you have un-limited time, but there are many disappointments.
[[underlined]] Nov 24 [[/underlined]] 
[[strikethrough]] Left camp [[/strikethrough]left camp[/strikethrough]] at 8 am about 12 elephants came to visit our camp, but as there was no good Bull amongst them we fired a shot to scare them & went off S.E. to look for others. About 9 we saw 5 enormous Bulls. A gigantic one without tusks [[overwrite]]2[[overwrite]] 3 nearly as big with splendid tusks & one slightly smaller one. They were moving pretty fast and we, on the inside of the curve kept pace with them till they stopped. We were commencing to go down to them when some Cows & Calves came along & they all went off together across our front. After a bit they all stopped in a thick bunch of thorn trees, but as they were all in a mass, we could only sit down & watch for them to separate. 
No more attempts to shoot a [[strikethrough]] bu [[/strikethrough]] Bull out of the middle of a herd after yesterdays experience.
About 12 noon without any warning the party sprang into activity. We imagine a little shift or freak of wind may have carried our scent - we nearly 
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