A BUFFALO HUNT BY THE KAMITI 



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Biit the game we were after was the buffalo herd that 

 haunted the papyrus swamp. As I have said before, the 

 buffalo is by many hunters esteemed the most dangerous of 

 African game. It is an enormously powerful beast with, in 



Ileatley and a buffalo path 



Showing how the enormous strength of the buffalo enables him to burst his way 

 among the papyrus stems which grow to a height of over twenty feet 



From a photograph by Kcrmit Roosevelt 



this country, a coat of black hair which becomes thin in the 

 old bulls, and massive horns which rise into great bosses at 

 the base, these bosses sometimes meeting in old age so as 

 to cover the forehead with a frontlet of horn. Their habits 

 vary much in different places. Where they are much 

 persecuted, they lie in the densest cover, and only venture 



