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nothing like an animal of any sort, I do not believe it. 

 It was impossible for this fellow to stumble on the truth, 

 even by accident. 



After -the excitement of this splendid run was over I 

 began to find a return of great lassitude and stiffness all 

 over my limbs ; but, as we returned towards our waggons, 

 we saw another herd of buffaloes at a considerable dis 

 tance from us, and on ground of which we could take no 

 advantage in our approach ; the consequence of this was, 

 that when we were scarce within a mile of them, that pe 

 culiar toss of their heads and apparently high action de 

 noted that they had seen us, and were off. Between us 

 and the herd there intervened a little rill of water, in the 

 midst of high grass and rushes, the latter some thirty feet 

 broad ; the little creek itself, scarce four feet wide, but 

 worn into the soil perhaps five feet deep, and lapped over 

 and completely disguised into a sort of pitfall by the grass 

 and reeds that grew so many yards on either side of it, 

 was completely hidden. This obstacle intervened just 

 at the start ; Bayard was leading, and his steady horse 

 walked through the stuff, put his head down to peer into 

 the water, and got over ; Tay mouth, however, now that he 

 had been made aware that a race was the order of the day, 

 on seeing the grass, and guessing at the obstacle, for he 

 could not see the water, and knowing that Bayard was 

 on ahead, tried to rush blindly after the other horse, which 

 I prevented, as to let him thus rush into it was to come 

 to perfectly certain grief. On being checked, he turned 

 his tail to it and commenced restiveness and a succession 

 of jibbings and rearings, to which I had to drop my hand 

 to prevent the chance of his going backwards. At this 

 time I felt so giddy and weak that I could hardly retain 

 the saddle, and was at last obliged to dismount. After a 



