But as it was evident by his frequent browsing that the animal was going slowly, he controlled his eagerness sufficiently to exercise great wariness on his own part.

It might be that while he was hunting he could also become the hunted.

It was not at all impossible that the warriors of Tandakora would fall upon his own track and follow.
He looked back apprehensively, and once he returned and retraced his steps for a little distance, but he could discern no evidence of an enemy and he resumed his pursuit of the moose, going faster now, and seeing twigs which apparently had been broken off only a few minutes before.

Then, as he topped a little rise, he saw the animal itself, browsing lazily on the succulent bushes.

It was a large moose, but to Robert, although an experienced hunter, it loomed up at the moment like an elephant.