The small elephant ran off toward those that we had seen on our right.

I suggested that we immediately follow the herd in the hope that a young bull might be found among them.

So off we went and in a few moments we saw them to our right, apparently returning to where the cow had been killed.

It is entirely likely that the big broken-tusked cow was going back to make trouble for us.

Colonel Roosevelt had a similar experience with a bull elephant that returned and charged the hunters as they were standing about one that they had just killed.
[Drawing: _They Whirled Around_] As the elephants moved along slowly we paralleled them and studied them as well as we could.