Safari Adventure by Willard Price

Author:Willard Price [Price, Willard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-10T02:19:42+00:00

Chapter 13

Red dust

The grass huts of the poachers were burned to the ground.

The tusks, tails, horns, hides, hippo teeth, elephants’ feet, giraffes’ sinews, leopard and lion heads, antlers of antelopes and gazelles, crocodile skins, lion fat, hippo fat, python backbones, feathers of egret, flamingo, ostrich, and crowned crane - all the trophies, including elephants’ eyelashes, were loaded on the trucks. With them went all the snares and traps.

‘What will you do with all this?’ Hal asked. ‘Sell it? It would bring a small fortune.’

‘What it would bring would be blood money,’ said Crosby. ‘We don’t want to make a profit out of murder. Anyhow, I think we’ll accomplish more if we put these things in our museum where visitors from all over the world can see them. I don’t think anybody can look at them without being shocked into doing everything within his power to stop this slaughter of innocent animals.’

Heavily loaded, the cars returned to the lodge. As Crosby and the boys entered the warden’s banda they were greeted by smiling little Judge Sindar Singh.

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