We may as well be prisoners now as then, and we won't go elephant-hunting any more." "Ruffian!" I said, "he who first talks of surrender, dies!" and I cut him down.

"Is there any one else who wishes to speak ?" No one stirred.
"Cowards! miserable cowards!" shouted I; "what, you dare not move for fear of death, at the hands of those wretches who even now fled before your arms--what, do I say YOUR arms ?--before MINE!--alone I did it; and as alone I routed the foe, alone I will victual the fortress! Ho! open the gate!" I rushed out; not a single man would follow.

The bodies of the elephants that we had killed still lay on the ground where they had fallen, about four hundred yards from the fort.

I descended calmly the hill, a very steep one, and coming to the spot, took my pick of the animals, choosing a tolerably small and plump one, of about thirteen feet high, which the vultures had respected.

I threw this animal over my shoulders, and made for the fort.
As I marched up the acclivity, whiz--piff--whir! came the balls over my head; and pitter-patter, pitter-patter! they fell on the body of the elephant like drops of rain.