In the animal's despairing efforts to escape it had kicked one leg out through the thick walls of the elephant's side.
[Photograph: Kermit Roosevelt] [Photograph: "Peeling" an elephant] The colonel, in parting, asked us to stop with him for lunch on our way back and he would tell us all about the elephant hunt and show us his pigskin library.

In return we promised to photograph the hyena and thus be prepared to render expert testimony in case, some time in the future, he might get into a controversy with the nature fakers as to the truth of the incident.
We then resumed our journey and arrived at the elephant camp at nine-thirty.

It was a scene of industry.

The skins of the two largest elephants and that of the calf had been removed the afternoon before and were spread out under a cluster of trees.

Twenty or thirty porters were squatted around the various ears and strips of hide and massive feet, paring off all the little particles of flesh or tissue that remained.