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Buffaloes and Crocodiles 



IN the autumn of the year 1899 1 encani[)ecl on the 

 banks ot the Pan^ani River, about mid\va\' up its 

 course. My taxidermist and I were busy preserving and 

 padding the zoological specimens we had collected, and 

 tor a period of about a fortnight there had been so 

 much work that I had hardl\' been able to leave the 

 camp. 



P^or some time I had Ijeen sending out reliable scouts 

 to track buffaloes. Since the rinderpest broke out in the 

 Kilimanjaro district these animals had bt;en very scarce, 

 and I was about the first European hunter to visit 

 the unhealthy swamps ot the Pangani. POr w(;eks my 

 jjeople had been making truitless journeys. Nowhere 

 could they find the buffalo-haunts. SuddcMily they t'ound, 

 some distance from my camp on th(; bank ot the river, 

 two natives, Waseguhas, who had built tlu.'msel\-es a little 

 hut there, and had plant(,-d a little lield with mai/e, living 



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