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a good deal faster than one would suppose was pos- 

 sible. It was getting very hot, but I was determined 

 the brute should not beat me. I lost sight of him for 

 a little time among some trees ; when I got through 

 them I found he was trying to ascend a small hill. I 

 had two more cartridges of my heavy rifle, and tliese 

 I fired at him, and as he was waddling up the hill 

 the shot broke the fetlock-joint of his other hind- 

 leg. This stopped him, and Goubasee and myself 

 found him sitting up like a dog, close to a white-ant 

 hill. I had no knife with me and no cartridges, and I 

 did not know on earth what to do ; so Goubasee got 

 big stones and handed them up the ant-hill to me, as 

 I stood on the top and tried to smash his head in by 

 throwing them at him. He charged at me in a clumsy 

 way twice, when I was not on the ant-hill, and very 

 nearly caught me with his horns as I half tripped-up 

 in stepping back. I thought I would look in the car- 

 tridge-bag to see if I had completely run out of 

 ammunition : to my great joy I found one Express 

 cartridge ; so I put the beast out of his misery with 

 a shot behind the ear. 



Guyndem, my other gunbearer, soon came up with 

 knives. The carcase was soon skinned and cut up, 

 and I sent back for two donkeys to carry the flesh 

 into camp; it made two heavy loads for the donkeys, 

 and the head and skin taxed the strencrth of the don- 



