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This I could see from his spoor , which had become firmer , and also from the fact that the other two had ceased to support him . At last evening closed in , and having travelled some eighteen miles , we camped , thoroughly tired out . `` Before dawn on the following day we were up , and the first break of light found us once more on the spoor . About half-past five o'clock we reached the place where the elephants had fed and slept . The two unwounded bulls had taken their fill , as the condition of the neighbouring bushes showed , but the wounded one had eaten nothing . He had spent the night leaning against a good-sized tree , which his weight had pushed out of the perpendicular . They had not long left this place , and could not be very far ahead , especially as the wounded bull was now again so stiff after his night 's rest that for the first few miles the other two had been obliged to support him .