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It was a bigger tent than ours. The seats went up and around the sides and we had to sit up high at the end over near where the animals were coming through. I was looking down at the pumping and swaying of their backs and at the tops of the heads of the men in red coats walking beside them as they came through. I said, "What kind of elephants are those?"
"Those are Africans, Bliss," Daddy Hickman said. "There's African elephants and Indian elephants."