The huge bulk collapsed and disappeared, buried in the reeds.

Hassan yelled that it was dead, but we couldn't see for the grass.

The situation now was perilous in the extreme.

The river made a sharp bend at this point like an incomplete letter O, with a narrow neck of land through which the elephants had passed when I had shot.

At the narrow neck it was about a hundred feet across while the depth of the "O" was about three hundred feet and the width about two hundred and fifty feet.