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all out. Both horse and rider were flung to 

 the ground with tremendous violence. The 

 horse had to be killed, and the man died in a 

 few hours from the shock, loss of blood, and 

 internal injuries. Such an accident, how- 

 ever, is very exceptional. 



My brother was in at the death of the 

 great southern herds in 1877, and had a 

 good deal of experience in buffalo hunting; 

 and once or twice was charged by old bulls, 

 but never had any difficulty in either eva- 

 ding the charge or else killing the brute as it 

 came on. My cousin, John Roosevelt, also 

 had one adventure with a buffalo, in which 

 he received rather a fright. He had been 

 out on foot with a dog and had severely 

 wounded a buffalo bull, which nevertheless, 

 with the wonderful tenacity of life and abil- 

 ity to go over apparently inaccessible places 

 that this species shows, managed to clamber 

 up a steep, almost perpendicular, cliff. My 

 cousin climbed up after it, with some diffi- 

 culty ; on reaching the top he got his elbows 

 over and drew himself up on them only to 



