THE SETTIT EIVER 139 



moved slowly along it for some 100 yards, till 

 coming round a bush I saw the buffalo's back at 

 10 yards sharp to the right. I expected a charge, 

 but A. stopped me from shooting, saying that it was 

 dead, and so it proved, and a nice bull at that, which 

 from all accounts had been stopping the collection 

 of the Hagar ul Zuruk cotton for weeks. Then home 

 to breakfast at 9 a.m. Afterwards I returned and 

 measured and weighed the buffalo, with the following 

 results : 



Total length . . . . 11 ft. 10 in. 



Tail 3ft. 



Height at withers . . . . 4 ft. 4 in. 



Girth at foreleg . . . . 7 ft. 1| in. 



Foreleg to brisket . . . . 1 ft. 6 in. 



Weight, clean . . . . 954 Ibs. 



The head only gave a beam of 28 inches, but the 

 palm was 9 inches, and I imagine him to have been 

 an old bull. M.'s contribution was a clean miss, 

 and it is worth noting that with a -470 soft-nosed 

 bullet right through the centre of the body, 6 inches 

 behind the shoulder, this bull travelled over 100 yards, 

 and, I believe, did not expire for fully five minutes. 

 I next made a perch up a tree to sit up for the 

 leopard, getting stung by a bee whose hive I disturbed 

 in the process of selecting a tree. In the evening I 

 sat up in this tree, but without success. 



