We laid him gently upon my angarep, which I had raised by four men, so that we could lower him gradually from the kneeling camel, and we carried him to the camp, about thirty yards distant.

He was faint, and I poured some essence of peppermint (the only spirits I possessed) down his throat, which quickly revived him.

His thigh was broken about eight inches above the knee, but fortunately it was a simple fracture.
Abou Do now explained the cause of the accident.

While the party of camel, men and others were engaged in cutting up the dead elephants, the three aggageers had found the track of a bull that had escaped wounded.
In that country, where there was no drop of water upon the east bank of the Settite for a distance of sixty or seventy miles to the river Gash, an elephant, if wounded, was afraid to trust itself to the interior.

One of our escaped elephants had therefore returned to the thick jungle, and was tracked by the aggageers to a position within two or three hundred yards of the dead elephants.