THE AFRICAN OR CAPE BUFFALO 



out a moment's warning, the first bull they had wounded 

 charged down on them with such ferocity that, before they 

 knew what had happened, Morrison was caught up by the 

 mighty horns of the enraged beast and tossed high up in 

 the air. He landed unconscious on his back in a thick bush, 

 with his left arm broken in three places, and almost sev- 

 ered from his body. During this time the Portuguese had 

 just had time to fire before the beast turned on him. He 

 succeeded in killing the buffalo instantly with a shot in the 

 brain, from a distance of only about five yards. 



Although, as before mentioned, the buffalo is taken off 

 the list of protected game animals in Uganda, and each 

 sportsman is allowed at present to kill two bulls a year in 

 British East Africa, yet with the present excellent and 

 rigid game laws, and vast, suitable game preserves in many 

 parts of East, Central, and South Africa, the Cape buffalo 

 is apt to survive and even increase still more in numbers 

 for centuries to come, unless another and more serious 

 rinderpest should threaten the magnificent and coura- 

 geous beast with total extermination. 



