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this moment depends the hunter's life. Though 

 they hunt their enemy with persistence, a buffalo 

 can be dodged by an active man, and I once 

 kept an ant-hill between myself and a determined 

 buffalo till I won. Old and solitary bulls are 

 amazingly cunning, and hard to track, but afford, 

 for this very reason, the best of sport. 



The Busn Cow (Bos coffer nanus) (Pacassa in 

 Umbundu) is found in the Cabinda, Congo, and 

 North Coanza provinces, and in places to the south 

 of the Coanza River, especially in the west, w r here 

 it is said to be found as far south as Novo Redondo. 

 The. equatorial type of bush cow, which is a 

 miniature rufous buffalo with a smaller upward 

 pointing horn, develops a darker colour and more 

 splayed horns towards central Angola ; but I saw 

 none of the intermediate type of head between 

 bush cow and buffalo, which I have met in Sene- 

 gambia. Bush cow spoor is similar to, but smaller 

 than, that of the buffalo ; and the habits and 

 temperament of both animals very alike. 



The RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros bicornis) (Oci- 

 manda in Umbundu, Kcvukevu or Kaloko in 

 Cokuc) is found in the south of the colony in 

 open scrub or savannah forest. It is reported 

 in the country towards the source of the Bero 

 River, in the upper reaches of the Ocingau, and 

 between this river and the Cacoluvar, in the upper 

 course of the Cubango, Colui, and its branches near 

 Dongo, in the Cuchi in the neighbourhood of the 

 post of that name, and in the extreme south-east 

 portion of the colony in the thorny bush along 

 the Cuando and its tributaries. 



