try, it is rather difficult to hunt 
them. While elephant-hunting 
in Uganda we found the buffalo 
a decided nuisance, frequently 
coming on to them unexpectedly 
while hot on an elephant trail, 
sometimes having difficulty in 
getting rid of them, not wishing 
to shoot or stampede them be- 
cause of the danger of frighten- 
ing away the elephants, to say 
nothing of the constant menace 
of running into a truculent old 
bull at very close quarters in 
The buffalo act- 
ually mingle with the elephants, 
each quite indifferent to the 
dense jungle. 
other, excepting that on one 
found elephant 
calves charging into a herd of 
buffalo, evidently only in play. 
occasion we 
They chased about squealing 
and stampeding the buffalo, who 
kept at a safe distance but did 
not actually take alarm. Occa- 
sionally an old cow whose calf 
was being hard-pressed by the 
young elephants would turn, apparently 
with the intention of having it out, but 
would always bolt before the elephant 
could actually reach her. In spite of 
the fact that the record head, fifty-four 
inches in spread, was shot by Mr. 
Knowles in Uganda, from our general 
observation, the heads in Uganda run 
smaller than those of British East Africa 
while the animals are perhaps heavier. 
While on our buffalo-hunting we have 
never had any actually serious encount- 
ers, we fully appreciate that the buffalo 
deserves his reputation as one of the 
Kikuyu porter with buffalo skull 
most dangerous of big-game animals. 
His eyesight is good, he has keen scent 
While 
the lion is usually satisfied with giving his 
and is vigilant and vindictive. 
victim a knock-out blow or bite, the buf- 
falo when once on the trail of man will 
not only persist in his efforts to find him 
but when he has once come up with him, 
will not leave while there is a vestige of 
In some 
ases he will not leave while there is a 
life remaining in the victim. 
fragment of the man remaining large 
enough to form a target for a buffalo’s 
stamping hoofs. 
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