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Show ? African Elephant Doomed. Unless public opinion Is kept Informed In-formed as tr what Is going on, thero Is very little liopu thnt tho African elephant can he preserved. In the first place, owing to its far larger growth of tusks, tills species Is the main object of tho ivoty hunter. Tho African Ivory Is the whiter, the harder and tho dearer of tho two. Also tho tusks nro very much Inrger than those of tho Asiatic elephant, so thnt tho hunter gets more money for less trouble trou-ble or rnther, did get it, for hunting the elephant for Its Ivory can now on.ly bo cnrrled on In Ahla In pnrts of the forests of Ihirmah, or "by permission" permis-sion" In certain districts of India. County Gentleman nnd Lnnd nnd Wnter. |