Show find rich ivory store in elephant cemetery most of the ivory used Is ob obtained by digging and not by shooting as Is commom commonly ly supposed elephants have their own customs one of these Is that no member of 0 the herd must die among his fellows when an old elephant feels that his course Is run he separates separate 3 himself from the herd and makes for a particular burial ground tor for each herd has its own cemetery this Is always a swampy tract of land overgrown with trees and rank vegetation here he dies and his great body buries itself by its own weight in the soft soll SOIL many of these elephant graveyards are known know n to the african hunters who make journeys to them each year tor for the purpose of digging up the ivory tusks few white men have ever seen such a place tor for the natives know that an elephant graveyard is 1 as Talu valuable able as tc a gold mine and they keep the secret lestar banks in our dumb animals aw |