With flashlight and Rifle ^ 



occasion, however, I had to exert all m\- aiithoritx to 

 prevent mv carriers from ninnini)^ away. I, too, lost 

 nerve tor a single moment, but recovered myself, and, 

 after I had examined the animals individually with 

 my glass, 1 found that twc^ of the largest cows, which 

 had each a calf and which stood out by themselves, had 

 been badly hit. I gave them another bullet each, but 

 this time from a lying position, taught wisdom by my 

 experience in the morning. By a violent tlap|)ing ot" their 

 ears they gave signs that the shots had grazed their 

 shoulders. To my great satisfaction in one respect, 

 but much to my disappointment in another, my shots 

 had the result that the Inilk of the herd took fh'ght to 

 the left, whik; the two wounded cows, without making 

 any other sign, made off to the right. At a very slow, 

 shambling sort of trot they disappeared in a depression 

 of the ground, followed bv their young ones. After 

 the rest of the herd, including three other \oung ones, 

 had got out of sight I follow^ed the wounded cows with 

 my six men, now very tired, and came upon them again 

 ten ndnut<,-s later, taking not(' that one of them was in 

 a very bad way and that the young ones, both close on 

 four )ears old, wen- following the other cow ahead. 



Aft('r tiring nearly twcnt\- shots without result from 

 behind I succeeded in bringing down tn-st the- hindmost 

 cow 1)V a shot in the ear at six paces, and then the one 

 in tronl, which had the \oung ones with it. ami which 

 stood still for a fe-w moments undctidctl, blec;ding 

 heavil) . 



As usual, the \-oung animals both of them bulls, 



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