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1/2 mile to them. Anyhow off went the cows & calves & smaller Bull, while the 4 Big [[strikethrough]]o [[strikethrough]] Bulls made straight for us seated on our hill as hard as they could come. For a moment we had [[strikethrough]] hopes [[/strikethrough]] a wild hope they were coming for us for the hill was bare & very steep & we could have given them snuff, but they turned at the foot of the hill and passed 400 yards in front of us & went off in a gigantic circle till they joined and then party & went off. So nothing doing, we returned to camp. An interesting day if an unprofitable one.
We had seen the tuskless Bull the other day. He is undoubtedly the biggest we have seen and the master of the lot. This is probably the end of our Elephant hunting as we shall have to trek tomorrow probably.
No news of our porters yet. We shall have to go somehow without them. They have already taken 13 days over a ten days job.
[[underlined]] Nov 25. [[/underlined]] Off a 5.45 & treked till 12 noon, hard work through the dense grass. Only made 7 or 8 miles in 6 hours.
Hope to be out of the grass this time tomorrow. No news of our Safari. Saw about 100 Elephants as we came along in 2 dense herds, but made no attempt to follow them. Killed a snake in camp.
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