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the place, but rubbed my eyes in amazement. There 

 was the very outline of the brute's form in the grass 

 nay, the very spot where his horn had torn the earth, 

 but the bull was gone ! I can only conclude he had 

 been shot in the horn or skull, or, more probably, 

 grazed in the spine, and stunned. The incident was, 

 however, not at an end yet, for before the carts 

 had reached the new camp there was a halt, and 

 my servant came running back to say the buffalo 

 was found. Sure enough the quick eye of a bullock- 

 driver had spied the brute lying among some bushes. 

 This was no doubt the one that I had followed so 

 long, for he was shot rather high and far back. What 

 was more, one hind leg was nearly all eaten. Sin 

 'Appu proposed that one of us should sit up for 

 the leopard, which had obviously dined off the carcase, 

 that night. As, however, this would involve a day's 

 delay, we refused, whereupon he asked, and obtained, 

 leave to do so himself. 



Towards evening Will's tracker turned up, and 

 reported that he had found a solitary elephant " a 

 nasty, dangerous brute," he added. The elephant 

 had charged him, but he had dodged among the 

 trees. Although these solitary elephants wander a 

 great deal, we were anxious to pit ourselves against 

 a " rogue," and decided to go in quest of him on Sin 

 'Appu's return. He turned up soon after daylight. 

 The leopard had returned to his food at sunset, and 

 Sin 'Appu, who was ensconced in the tree above the 

 dead buffalo, put a charge of slugs into him at about 

 five yards range. He then proceeded to skin his 



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