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| Keywords: Female Elephant Pursued with Javelins.jpg en Female Elephant Pursued with Javelins Protecting Her Young She often stood after she had crossed a rivulet and faced the men though she received fresh spears It was by this process of spearing and loss of blood that she was killed for at last making a short charge she staggered round and sank down dead in a kneeling posture I did not see the whole hunt having been tempted away by both sun and moon appearing unclouded I turned away from the spectacle of the destruction of noble animals which might be made so useful in Africa with a feeling of sickness and it was not relieved by the recollection that the ivory was mine though that was the case I regretted to see them killed and more especially the young one the meat not being at all necessary at that time; but it is right to add that I did not feel sick when my own blood was up the day before We ought perhaps to judge these deeds more leniently in which we ourselves have no temptation to engage Had I not been previously guilty of doing the very same thing I might have prided myself on superior humanity when I experienced the nausea in viewing my men kill these two pp 562-563 1857 http //libweb5 princeton edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/livingstone/livingstone-images html David Livingstone Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years ™ Residence in the Interior of Africa and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast Thence Across the Continent Down the River Zambesi to the Eastern Ocean London John Murray 1857 David Livingstone other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Elephants being killed Javelins | ||||
