It was a vast mass of bone, with enormous eyes that glared like fire; its jaws opened to the width of six or eight feet, and were furnished with rows of sharp teeth, while at the extremity of its nose there was a tusk several feet long, like the horn of a rhinoceros, curving backward.

All this I took in at the first glance, and the next instant the whole band of hunters, with their usual recklessness, flung themselves upon the monster.
For a short time all was the wildest confusion--an intermingling of birds and men, with the writhing and roaring beast.

With his huge claws and his curved horn and his wide jaws he dealt death and destruction all around; yet still the assailants kept at their work.
Many leaped down to the ground and rushed close up to the monster, thrusting their lances into the softer and more unprotected parts of his body; while others, guiding their birds with marvellous dexterity, assailed him on all sides.

The birds, too, were kept well to their work; nor did they exhibit any fear.

It was not until they were wounded that they sought to fly.