One was the big cow with the one broken and one good tusk.

She was leading the group, and was doubtless a vicious animal.

She was an enormous beast, probably over eleven feet in height.
Another was the half-grown elephant, then a smaller one, and lastly a good-sized elephant with two fairly good tusks.

We tried to determine the sex of this last one, I hoping that it was a bull, but fearing otherwise.

Ake thought it was a cow with tusks about twelve or fourteen inches long, but the fact that its breasts showed no signs of milk fullness led me to hope that it was a young bull, and I determined to act on that supposition.