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the long grass. It was lurking where they did not 
expect it and with a sudden charge it was upon them 
before they had a chance to shoot. The buffalo 
knocked down the man who told me the story and 
then rushed after his companion. The first victim 
managed to climb a tree although without his gun. 
By that time the other man was dead. But the buf- 
falo was not satisfied. For two hours he stamped 
and tossed the remains while the wounded man in 
the tree sat helplessly watching. When the buffalo 
left, my informant told me, the only evidence of his 
friend was the trampled place on the ground where 
the tragedy had taken place. There is nothing in 
Africa more vindictive than this. 
There was another case of an old elephant hunter 
in Uganda who shot a buffalo for meat. The bullet 
did not kill the animal and it retreated into the thick 
bush where there were even some good-sized trees. 
The old hunter followed along a path. Suddenly the 
buffalo caught him and tossed him. As he went into 
the air he grasped some branches overhanging the 
trail.~ There he hung unable to get up and afraid to 
drop down while the wild bull beneath him charged 
back and forth with his long horns ripping at the 
hunter’s legs. Happily the gun boy came up in time 
to save his master by killing the beast. This hunter 
was an extraordinary character. He was very suc- 
cessful and yet he was almost stone deaf. How he 
dared hunt elephants or any other big game without 
the aid of his hearing I have never been able to con- 
ceive, yet he did it and did it well. 
