GIANT ELEPHANT.
PHANTOM JUNGLE KING. Somewhere in the wilds of the East African jungle there lives a giant elephant whose bodyguard of female elephants protects him from the prying eyea of the white hunter, “The Crown Prince, as he has been named." states 'Mr Frank Lavelin Puxlye .m his recently published book, “In African Game Tracks," "has become a legendary figure, even during his lifetime,” says the Adelaide Observer, “He has never been seen by a white man, so far. as T know, but the natives claim for him a pair of tusks that exceed 3001 b iu weight apiece. An elephant’s height, is nearly proportionate to the dimensions of his feet . . . thus a 19 inch spoor would point to. an animal approximately 12 feet in height.
What must be the size of this monster? That he exists there i$ no doubt whatever. I have myself measured these plant foot-marks, and have found that they scale 29 A inches. . . . They cannot be mistaken, for one of the toe-nails ig missing.
“ Early this year a well-known came ranper confirmed my belief that no white man has ever seen -him. “ And no white man ever will, 5 ’ ’he added, explaining that the Crown Prince maintained an escort of females who encircled him at a distance of a mile. “They were there for the purpose of pivinp his lordship timely warning," he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 14
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