BUFFALOES KILLED. J- 



of hills, offshoots from the Bombo Mountains, where 

 extensive open glades were encountered. Our course, 

 then, was altered from north-west to due north, and 

 four days after we reached a river, now called the 

 Saabin. The country was simply lovely ; above us 

 and to the left hand rose range after range of hills, 

 as attractive as those of Malvern, while in the other 

 direction stretched what appeared one unbroken 

 forest of tropical timber. 



From the quantity of spoor and its variety, there 

 was the most confirming: evidence that we had 

 arrived in a hunters' elysium ; nor were we long in 

 putting the place to the test, for meat we wanted, 

 and that badly. Sunday was a good tracker ; by his 

 skill he soon recognised the evidence of the presence 

 of buffalo, and that their sanctuary was a dense 

 growth of reeds of several acres in extent that 

 margined the stream. 



Like an able general his plan of campaign was 

 at once formed ; he, with half a dozen of his fol- 

 lowers, were to go up wind and return down it to 

 start the game, while we, perdu, took our positions 

 to leeward. The device answered to perfection, and 

 two cows were killed. More buffalo could have 

 been slaughtered if we had desired to add to the 

 carnage, for there was not less than a hundred head 

 of these magnificent game brutes turned out of their 

 resting-place, where, doubtless, they had been en- 

 joying their siesta, as the hour was mid-day. 



