Big Game Shooting 



two buffalo and Wilson one, which was a splendid 

 cow which he had got in the neck. As his 

 orderly, who, I may add, had escaped quite unhurt 

 except for a severe shaking, said, the blood on 

 him was the buffalo's, as if she had not been very 

 badly wounded, "he would have been dead." 



This agrees with what I saw when she tried to 

 toss him ; that it was not a toss, but a great 

 muscular effort of the neck of a very far-gone 

 beast. 



It would have been madness to follow into the 

 swamp five buffalo, wounded and angry, to say 

 nothing of their friends and relations who were 

 also horribly annoyed at our impertinence in 

 worrying them, so we left them for next day, and 

 went home, having had, from my point of view, 

 the best morning's sport, bar none, in Africa, 

 I have ever hoped to see, and expecting that the 

 vultures, or later perhaps the hyenas, and the 

 smell, would lead us to them, which proved to be 

 the case. 



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