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him through the heart, and giving two or three 

 gasps, he rolled over dead. 



Whilst I was thus engaged, I heard three shots 

 in the bush, and shortly afterwards tlie villagers 

 came out with the dead carcass of a young female, 

 the head of which they had almost blown to 

 pieces. 



The one I killed proved to be an old male, 

 although not a large one, for he could not have 

 stood more than 5 feet 6 inches, measuring from 

 the sole of his feet to the crown of his head, as he 

 lay dead. He was 52 inches round the. chest, and 

 7 feet 10 inches from finger to finger across the 

 chest. His fore-arm was 22 inches in circum- 

 ference, whilst his calf scarcely measured 10 inches. 

 Two of his fingers had been cut off", and he had 

 three large seams on his back in two places, that 

 looked as if he had been fighting with a leopard. 



As he lay dead he very much resembled an 

 old negro, and Tom Dick said he looked like 

 "the man that 'tand for um in we country," 

 meaning the old fellow from whom I engaged my 

 Kroomen, previously described. 



