If they did so it might be necessary to shoot them, which we didn't want to do.

So we ran swiftly back to the edge of the river and waited.

But all was quiet, and after a time we climbed across the river on the interlacing branches, circled around to where the elephants were visible just across the stream and scared the two smaller ones away.

Once more we swung across from branch to branch over the swift waters of the river and reached the other bank where lay the mountainous bulk of the dead elephant.

It was a young bull about eight feet high and with two well-shaped tusks twenty-two inches long in the open, or approximately thirty-eight inches in all.
Sulimani was sent to notify Mr.Akeley and Mr.Clark, and after a long search found them, and together they arrived a couple of hours later, followed by gunbearers and saises.