146 THROUGH ANGOLA 



on the Coporollo. He was carrying stores in his 

 ox wagon, a favourite occupation of the Boer 

 settlers in Angola, which enables them to shoot 

 along the roads, making a good deal of money 

 above that obtained from transport work, by 

 selling the skins and meat of the animals they 

 kill. 



Just north of the river, on the day Tuscano 

 and I were hunting south of it, T - came across a 

 solitary bull buffalo, which he succeeded in killing 

 with the help of two hunting dogs, after the buffalo 

 had charged him more than once. He told me 

 that his dogs were trained to tackle buffalo, and 

 could hold them long enough to allow of several 

 shots being fired or photographs taken. The 

 dogs had apparently hung on to the buffalo's nose 

 and ears, and so worried him that the hunter had 

 been able to finish the buffalo without much 

 danger to himself. 



I will let the reader judge of the value of both 

 the hunter and his hounds from the account 

 written in my diary on my return to camp, after 

 a day with both. 



" IQth October. Went out at daybreak this 



morning with T , who tells me that he has shot 



a large number of buffalo, and has great experience 

 of hunting; these animals, but knows of no better 



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way than by following them with dogs, which 

 hold them, and then allow of an easy approach. 

 Although the method did not appeal to me, it 

 was agreed that while the dogs held the buffaloes 

 and I took photos, T would protect me with 



