Stephenson started to shoot her again, but Ake shouted, "Don't shoot her again.

She's got enough." Mr.Stephenson followed her for some distance and decided that she was going to recover, and so came back.

In the meantime my elephant, with the two smaller ones, was moving off to the left, and with my small rifle I fired at its backbone, the only vulnerable spot visible.

A spurt of dust rose, but the elephant did not stop.

So, accompanied by Hassan and Sulimani, my two gunbearers, I started after the wounded elephant and the two younger ones.