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A sporting life in Africa

always recognised the biggest bull elephant when he passed through the farm. His handsome 65lb tusks had a distinctive curve and a thickness that showed his ivory still had plenty of future growth to come. One afternoon in the woodland at the top of our valley, he was browsing with two other younger bulls, his askari guards, when a gang of poachers ambushed him, spraying a

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