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Boculy found so many elephants for us that we gradually became accustomed to the big beasts
鮑克里為我們找到了許多頭大象，我們逐漸適應了大型動物，
and set our cameras many times for them without fear.
多次在準備攝像機時也不感到害怕了。
On one such occasion, when we were in our blind at night, a long file of elephants came down for water.
有一次在黑天，伸手不見五指，一大群大象來這里找尋水源。
As they approached our flashlight apparatus, they stopped. For several minutes they hesitated,
當它們靠近我們的閃光燈設備時，它們停住了，它們猶豫了幾分鐘，
their trunks waving in the air. Then one elephant left the herd.
它們揮舞著長鼻，隨后一頭大象離開了象群。
As he moved away, he would stop every fifteen or twenty feet to wave his trunk.
當它走開后，每走15或20英尺時就會揮舞長鼻。
He seemed greatly puzzled and finally went back to the herd.
它似乎很是困惑，之后又回到了象群。
The elephants held a conference at which there was not a sound.
大象們舉行了一個會議，沒有一點聲音。
Finally they went to the water by another route. We got no pictures that night.
最后，它們通過另一條道走向水邊，那天晚上我們沒有拍照。
One old female got the habit of breaking into our vegetable garden.
一頭年邁的母象已習慣闖入我們的菜園。
She particularly liked sweet potatoes and was quite orderly about securing them.
她特別喜歡甜土豆，尋覓食物時顯得很規矩。
Every night she would pick over a space about ten square feet,
每晚，她都會找一塊大約十尺見方的地方，
eating everything in that area and going away without damaging anything else.
食用那里所有的食物，離開時不會損壞其他東西。
We found that this old lady was entering the garden at a hole which she had made in the hedge beside a great yellow-wood tree.
我們發現這頭母象是通過一個小洞進入菜園的，這個小洞是它在靠近一顆黃桑樹的樹籬間鑿出的。
Here we rigged up our wires and camera with everything so set that the elephant would spring the flash light herself.
我們在這里連接好線路和照相機，一切萬事俱備，這頭大象會自己按下閃光燈。
