What they were firing so many shots at, I could not conceive.
At length I reached the rising ground.

The moment that I was discovered by them, the two largest elephants came towards me, with their ears cocked and their trunks raised.
I waited for a second or two till they lowered their trunks, which they presently did; and taking a steady shot with one of my doubled-barrelled No.

10 rifles, I floored them both by a right and left.

One, however, immediately recovered, and, with the blood streaming from his forehead, he turned and retreated with the remainder of the herd at great speed through the high grass.
The chase required great caution.

However, they fortunately took to a part of the country where the grass was not higher than my shoulders, and I could thus see well over it.