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moved away a few more paces, and lay down quite 

 o-racefully on the ground, sighing. Then turning 

 on his side, stretching out wide apart his fore and 

 liind legs, and again relaxing them, he expired in 

 a position of complete repose. In weight he must 

 have exceeded a thousand pounds ; his horns were 

 long, straight, thick at the base, with a spiral 

 twist in them. Lee came up, and we had hard 

 work to cut branches and grass sufficient to cover 

 and hide so large a beast. From twenty to thirty 

 pounds of the meat, taken from the back and 

 breast, we cut off at once, and attached to our 

 saddles ; and when mounted must have looked 

 like a peram1)ulatiiig l)utclierV shop. It Avas well 

 that we carried off so much meat with us, as a 

 grass fire Iilazing in the vicinity, impelled by the 

 Avind, after our departure enveloped and consumed 

 our fine eland bull, and on the morrow "the 

 Baboon"' found l:)iit a cliarred carcase, the horns 

 being the onlv portion of the remains which tlie 

 flames had been unable to destroy or spoil. A 

 long ride of ten or twelve miles lay before us to 

 Hartley Hill, which we reached about four o'clock 

 in the afternoon, seeing on our Avay many buck 

 of various sorts, Avhich Ave disdained to chase. 



