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The Ivory Child

CHAPTER XXI
17/22

There was the little mount worn by his feet, on which Jana was wont to stand.

There were the rocks behind which I had tried to hide, and near to them some crushed human bones which I knew to be those of the unfortunate Marut.

These we buried with due reverence on the spot where he had fallen, I meanwhile thanking God that my own bones were not being interred at their side, as but for Hans would have been the case--if they were ever interred at all.

All about lay the skeletons of dead elephants, and from among these we collected as much of the best ivory as we could carry, namely about fifty camel loads.

Of course there was much more, but a great deal of the stuff had been exposed for so long to sun and weather that it was almost worthless.
Having sent this ivory back to the Town of the Child, which was being rebuilt after a fashion, we went on to Simba Town through the forest, dispatching pickets ahead of us to search and make sure that it was empty.


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