Mr.Stephenson had gone back to camp to see that salt and supplies, with one tent, were sent out.
Then began the work of measuring the elephant, a work that must be done most thoroughly when the trophy is to be mounted entire.

There were dozens of measurements of every part of the body, enough to make a dress for a woman, and then came the skinning, a prodigious task that took all of the late afternoon and evening.

We investigated the position of an elephant's heart which Kermit Roosevelt had said was up in the upper third or at the top of the second third of the body, a spot which must be reached by a shot directed through the point of the ear as it lay back.

As a matter of fact, an elephant's heart lies against the brisket, about ten or eleven inches from the bottom of the breast.

A broadside shot through the front leg at the elbow would penetrate the heart.
At nine o'clock, Christmas Eve, the tent arrived and was soon put up in the jungle of high grass at the middle of the little peninsula.