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o'clock without seeing anything worth firing at, and as the 

 sun was by this time well up, and the game was retiring 

 to their lairs, I descended, and, after having a bathe, 

 during which I succeeded in moving the fallen buffalo, 

 whose dying struggles had fortunately carried it into deep 

 water, and towed it to the other end of the pond, where 

 I covered it up with branches to keep the vultures from 

 seeing it during my absence, I went off, in the first place, 

 to visit the white rhinoceros cow that I had left still 

 living, and then to see what had become of the upetyane 

 at which I had fired so many shots, as well as the buffalo 

 bull which had charged me. To my disgust I found that 

 the former had got up and disappeared, though, from the 

 marks on the ground, it was evident she could not go far 

 as she was dragging one of her fore-legs, and in point of 

 fact, I found her within a hundred yards of the spot, 

 lying down, and rising with the utmost difficulty when I 

 walked up. I settled her with three more shots, and 

 then returned to the pool to take up the spoor of the 

 other. It had gone away at a furious gallop, tearing up 

 the ground, and smashing branches and small trees like 

 reeds before it, and had kept up this headlong course for 

 nearly a mile, when, reducing its pace to a walk, it entered 

 an ukaku thicket, went straight through it, following 

 the windings of an old game-path, passed through the 

 next open, fully a mile broad, over which I had great 

 difficulty in tracking it, and went into a large jungle that 

 edged it ; turning off at right angles to its former course, 

 it then proceeded to make for the upper end, and after 

 another mile I began to guess the spot it wished to reach. 

 One part of this jungle was remarkable for having a 



