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the water on the opposite side, and even if they came out nearer it would be difficult to observe them closely in the dusk.
He gave the signal for the departure, but on the road said to Nell:
"Well! We have seen something which the eyes of no European have ever seen. And do you know what I think?—that if we reach the ocean safely nobody will believe us when I tell them that there are water-elephants in Africa."
"But if you caught one and took him along with us to the ocean?" Nell said, in the conviction that Stas as usual would be able to accomplish everything.
