Then it whirled about and the herd went crashing away through the sparse undergrowth.

It was a time of the utmost nervous tension, and I don't believe the human system could undergo a prolonged strain of that severity.
[Drawing: _It Started Back as Though Stung_] During all this time we had not succeeded in positively locating a bull elephant.

Of all the forty-four elephants that were visible at any one time, there was not one that we could feel safe in identifying as the elephant needed for the group.

Three more times we stalked the herd to very close range, but they were now so restless that nothing could be ascertained.

So finally we decided to get ahead of them and watch them as they passed us, but just as we had reached a point where they were approaching, the two kongoni gave a shrill alarm and the entire herd made off in tremendous haste.