This small peninsula was matted with a jungle growth of high grass and reeds six or eight feet tall, while the edges of the river were thickly wooded with small trees tangled together and interlacing their branches over the narrow but deep waters of the Nzoia.
[Drawing: _Awaiting the Charge_] Down in the jungle depths of this peninsula there was a violent commotion among the low branches of these trees, an indication that the animal was not dead, but was thrashing madly about as if desperately wounded.

Hassan said it was the young elephant and that the older one was dead, but this could not be determined without pushing on through the reeds until we would be almost upon them.

This course seemed too dangerous to try.
The river at this point was absolutely impassable for animals.

The banks were ten feet high and perpendicular.

The water was perhaps five or six feet deep and the width of the swift stream not over twenty or thirty feet.