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the bull at the tail of the rest, when, by a most lucky 

 shot with the second barrel, fired in a desperate 

 hurry without rising from my elbows, I caught the 

 bull within a foot of the root of his tail and broke his 

 back. The rest of the herd waited for him 100 yards 

 further on, and but that I had now secured my 

 quotum of buffalo I might have taken a long shot at 

 a second bull. As it was, we let the herd clear off, and 

 then approached the wounded bull and finished him 

 a fine old specimen of the Abyssinian type of 

 buffalo, with 30-inch spread, and 9-inch palm. His 

 height was 4 feet 5 inches, whereas that of my first 

 bull had been 4 feet 4 inches. This I note, as Mr. Ward 

 gives the height of the Abyssinian type as 4 feet, which 

 is far too little. I then returned to camp and sent 

 out three camels to bring in the head, hide, etc. 

 Of smaller game I saw that day one male tiang, as we 

 were stalking the buffalo, and two or three oribi, and 

 at a critical point in the stalk a reedbuck did his best 

 to give the alarm by whistling at us, and actually did 

 bring half a dozen buffalo to their feet, but we lay 

 still and they quieted down again. 



May 15th. Spent a somewhat wearisome day over 

 the buffalo-trophies, and in repacking my other 

 trophies for marching. 



May IQth. Got off at 7 a.m. and marched until 

 noon, some 12 miles, to a meshra called Ragewa. 



