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had he not caught hold of fome ftrong roots of a tree flioot- 

 iiig out of the bank ; and there he lay in perfe(ft fafety from 

 the enemy, till our fervants went round, and brought him 

 out of the pool on the further fide. 



In the mean time, the buffalo, mortally v/oundcd, feeing 

 his enemy had efcapcd, kept his eyes intent upon us, who 

 were abovit forty yards from him, walking backwards to- 

 wards us, with intent to turn fuddenly upon the nearcil 

 horfe ; when Ayto Confu ordered two men with guns to 

 llioot him through the head, and he indantly fell. The two 

 we firft killed were females ; this laft was a bull, and one 

 of the largeil, confefTedly, that had ever been feen. Though 

 not fat, T guefs he weighed nearer fifty ihan forty ftone. His 

 horfis from the root, following the line of their curve, were 

 about fifty-two inches, and nearly nine where thickeft in 

 the circumference. They were flat, not round. Ayto Con- 

 fu ordered the head to be cut off, and cleared of its flefli, fo 

 that the horns and flccleton of the head unly remained ; this 

 he hung up in his great hall among the probofces of ele- 

 phants, and horns of rhinocerofes, with this infcription in 

 Jiis own language," Togouhe the Kipt killed this upcii tkc Bcdcwi,* 



We were now within fight of home, to v^hich we went 

 ftraight without further hunting. Neither the ridicule nor 

 the condolence of the young men could force one word 

 from Ammonios ; only when I ailced him whether or not 

 he was hurt, he anfwercd from the fcripcure, " He that io- 

 " veth danger fl^.all perifii in it." But at night Ozoro Eflher, 

 either really or feignedly, cxpreffing herfelf as difplcafcd 

 with her fon Ayro Confu, Ammonios, who loved the young 

 ;'man fincerely, could not bear to be the occafion of this ; fo 



that 



