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very severely wounded, ran down in the op)en a horse 

 Lobengula had lent me, and on which my Hottentot 

 driver was mounted ; she struck the horse as it was 

 going at full speed between the thighs with her nose, 

 and, luckily, striking short, knocked it over on one 

 side, and sent its rider flying, but before she could 

 do further damage a bullet through her shoulders 

 from George Wood incapacitated her for further 

 mischief. 



Buffalo calves are born in January, February, and 

 March, several months later than the calves of the 

 various species of antelopes living in the same country, 

 which are born from September to Christmas-time, 



The largest buffalo horns I have myself brought 

 home, and which 1 think are about as large as one 

 is likely to get in the interior (though they are said 

 to attain to a greater size along the coast), measure 

 as follows : — Greatest spread measured in a straight 

 line from bend to bend, 3 feet 8 inches ; depth over 

 forehead, i foot 3 inches ; length of each horn along 

 the curve, 3 feet. This buffalo was shot near 

 Linyanti on the Chobe. 



2. Horns of buffalo bull shot near the river 

 Ramokwebani. Greatest spread measured in a 

 straight line from bend to bend, 3 feet 6 inches ; 

 depth over forehead, i foot 5 inches ; length of each 

 horn along curve, 2 feet 1 1 inches. 



3. Horns of buffalo cow shot near Linyanti, river 

 Chobe. Greatest spread measured in a straight line 

 from outside bend, 3 feet 4 inches ; depth over 

 forehead, 7 inches ; length of each horn along curve, 

 2 feet 4 inches. 



During the year 1877 I shot near Linyanti some 

 lovely specimens of that most exquisitely beautiful 

 little antelope, the Chobe bushbuck {Tragelaphus 



