As soon as he came fairly within my reach, I fired, and shot him directly in the head; immediately he sank down into the water, but rose instantly, and plunged up and down, as if he were struggling for life, and so indeed he was; he immediately made to the shore; but between the wound, which was his mortal hurt, and the strangling of the water, he died just before he reached the shore.
Dès qu'il fut à ma portée, je fis feu, et je le frappai droit à la tête. Aussitôt il s'enfonça dans l'eau, mais aussitôt il reparut et plongea et replongea, semblant lutter avec la vie ce qui était en effet, car immédiatement il se dirigea vers le rivage et périt juste au moment de l'atteindre, tant à cause des coups mortels qu'il avait reçus que de l'eau qui l'étouffa.