Then there was the low rumble that had me darting to my right in the certain knowledge that it was the empty - stomach of a cantankerous elephant . Next came the almost silent hiss of something blood - thirsty and nasty sighing to my left . This was promptly followed by another brush against the back flaps ; a whisper that could have been the wind but was almost certainly a leopard and the sharp meow - like snarl of a clearly small but patently lethal wild cat .
I breathed with my mouth open , my eyes wide like those of a mad cow , my heart pounding and my head spinning towards each sound like a scene from the Exorcist .
Emotion: Fear