THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



man could only kill one male buffalo on a special license, 

 for which he had to pay twenty-five dollars. Then for 

 two years the hunter was allowed to kill one hull buffalo 

 on his ordinary sportsman's license. Since the middle 

 of December, 1909, when the present new game laws went 

 into effect, a sportsman is allowed tivo hull hiiif aloes on his 

 Hcense, the animals having greatly increased during the 

 last few years. 



Mr. F. C. Selous, who has probably killed more buf- 

 faloes than any man living, and who has had a great many 

 narrow escapes from wounded and charging beasts, classes 

 these as the most dangerous of African game. This opin- 

 ion is undoubtedly shared by many other hunters. On one 

 of my trips to East Africa I met a certain Mr. Morrison, 

 an American, who told me how he, a few years ago, had 

 lost his left arm in a buffalo hunt. With another white 

 man, a Portuguese lawyer, he was out buffalo hunting 

 some sixty miles to the northwest of Mozambique, in Por- 

 tuguese East Africa. Each of them had already succeeded 

 in felling one fine, old bull, when toward evening one day, 

 as they were returning to camp, a small buffalo herd 

 suddenly appeared within shooting distance. They could 

 plainly see that there was one very large bull among them. 



Both sportsmen fired at this animal, but the wounded 

 buffalo disappeared with the rest of the herd into the 

 jungle. Morrison and his friend followed in hot pursuit, 

 and a moment later they saw a pair of fine horns behind 

 a bush. Morrison fired at once, mistaking it for the bull 

 that he had already hit, as the beast rolled over dead at 

 the crack of the gun. The two delighted friends now ran 

 forward toward the fallen buffalo, when suddenly, with- 



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