P3
1. hyenas: hunting dogs
2. The silence seemed absolute: It seemed that there was not a sound anywhere.
P4
1. presently: soon (American and Scottish E : at present; currently)
2. scrub: low growing plants
3. hypericum: a kind of plant
4. Lest the noise should alarm the animals: In case the noise should disturb the wild animals.
P5
1. gasp: struggle for breath; labor for breath, suck in, pant, catch
2. cast about: cast around/round: to search about, around/ round for sth.
3. insistent: repeatedly insisting and making; urgent
4. an insistent bell-like whistle: a continuing, urgent bell-like sound made with mouth
5. beastly: unpleasant, abominable, awful, terrible, nasty
6. wallow: to move or roll about in (deep mud, dirty water or…)
7. the noise created by my own beastly wallowing: the noise I created when I was rolling along clumsily like a beast
8. come up with: to reach
9. impulse: a sudden wish to do sth
10. I had the impulse to climb up: I had the sudden inclination to climb up because I was so impressed and curious about these beds that I wanted to try one of them. I did not do so because I was already exhausted.
11. foul with: to cause to become dirty
12. interrogatively: enquiringly, expectantly