178 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



second shot laid her low. The herd now thought 

 discretion the better part of valour, wheeled round 

 and went through the heavy vines and creepers as if 

 they were so much pack-thread. My Arab friend was 

 for following up the herd, but I had had enough ; so 

 we retraced our way to the steep path by which we 

 had come. The descent was worse, if anything, than 

 the ascent, and when I got back to the bungalow, I 

 could scarcely move from fatigue. Yet my associate 

 was as lively as a cricket. After a cup of coffee he 

 departed to bring in the slain. That was my only 

 hunt there, for I was laid up again with fever and 

 unable to leave my room for many a day. These 

 buffaloes are the Bos Bracliyceros of naturalists, and 

 extend north of " Mossamades " along the Coast, up 

 the Niger and into the interior to the Lake regions. 



