Around us was an opaque screen of impenetrable jungle; the lake lay about fifty yards upon our left, behind the thick rattan.

The gun-bearers were gone ahead somewhere, and were far in advance.

We were at a stand-still.

Leaning upon my long rifle, I stood within four feet of the wall of jungle which divided us from the lake.
I said to B., 'The trackers are all wrong, and have gone too far.

I am convinced that the elephants must have entered somewhere near this place.' Little did I think that at that very moment they were within a few feet of us.