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occasion, however, I had to exert all my authority to 

 prevent my carriers from running away. I, too, lost 

 nerve for a single moment, but recovered myself, and, 

 after I had examined the animals individually with 

 inv glass, I found that two of the largest cows, which 



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had each a calf and which stood out by themselves, had 

 been badly hit. I gave them another bullet each, but 

 this time from a lying position, taught wisdom by my 

 experience in the morning. By a violent flapping of their 

 ears they gave signs that the shots had grazed their 

 shoulders. To my great satisfaction in one respect, 

 but much to my disappointment in another, my shots 

 had the result that the bulk of the herd took flight to 

 the left, while the two wounded cows, without making 

 any other sign, made off to the right. At a very slow, 

 shambling sort of trot they disappeared in a depression 

 of the ground, followed by their young ones. After 

 the rest of the herd, including three other young ones, 

 had got out of sight I followed the wounded cows with 

 my six men, now very tired, and came upon them again 

 ten minutes later, taking note that one of them was in 



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a very bad way and that the young ones, both close on 

 four years old, were following the other cow ahead. 



After firing nearly twenty shots without result from 

 behind I succeeded in bringing down first the hindmost 

 cow by a shot in the ear at six paces, and then the one 

 in front, which had the young ones with it, and which 

 stood still for a few moments undecided, bleeding 

 heavily. 



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