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as buffalo went, lie appeared not to be in any 

 danger of a move. 



"We struck the spoor of another small herd a 

 little later, and after stating very emphatically 

 that the dogs should NOT be loosed if we came 

 across them, I decided to accompany 

 again. On this occasion he fired at a buffalo cow 

 a few feet away from me, while I was trying to 

 photograph her. I never expected the shot, and 

 could not possibly have got away this time, if the 



buffalo, which T says he hit, had charged 



a quite likely thing for the cow to have done, if 

 wounded, as she was facing me, and so close. The 

 herd and the cow bolted away from us at the shot, 

 and after this I left the camera alone, and followed 

 up with the rifle till sure that there was no blood 

 spoor, or wounded animal to be dealt with, How 

 T- - could have missed the buffalo at 5 yards 

 is hard to say, but my trust had been so shaken 

 that when he wanted to borrow my rifle I refused 

 and went back to camp. 



" I have been singularly foolish to-day, and 

 singularly lucky." 



On the evening of the buffalo adventure, camp 

 was struck, and we matched south, parallel to a 

 river called the Chingaloi, and on our way to 

 Quillenges and Lubango. That night we halted 

 at the abandoned farm of a Sierra Leone boy, P 

 British subject, who had failed to make the farm 

 pay. The village and surrounding region are 

 called " Quinjambereet," from the name of a 

 forest tree which abounds here. The country is 



