I thought he would fall and crush me, but this shot was the only chance, as B.was perfectly helpless.
A dense cloud of smoke from the heavy charge of powder for the moment obscured everything.

I had jumped out of the way the instant after firing.

The elephant did not fall, but he had his death blow the ball had severed his jugular, and the blood poured from the wound.

He stopped, but collecting his stunned energies he still blundered forward towards B.He, however, avoided him by running to one side, and the wounded brute staggered on through the jungle.

We now loaded the guns; the first rogue was quite dead, and we followed in pursuit of rogue number two.