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Cuninghame; for to do either would invite a charge. A few 

 seconds passed, and then the unwounded mass of the herd 

 resumed their flight, and after a little hesitation the wounded 

 bulls followed. We now turned our attention to the wounded 

 cow, which was close to the papyrus. She went down to 

 our shots, but the reeds and marsh-grass were above our 



Third buffalo bull shot in the swamp 

 Frotn a photograph by Edmund Heller 



heads when we drew close to the swamp. Once again 

 Heatley went in with his white horse, as close as it was even 

 reasonably safe, with the hope either of seeing the cow, 

 or of getting her to charge him and so give us a fair chance 

 at her. But nothing happened and we loosed the two dogs. 

 They took up the trail and went some little distance into the 

 papyrus, where we heard them give tongue, and immedi- 

 ately afterward there came the angry grunt of the wounded 

 buffalo. It had risen and gone off thirty yards into the 

 papyrus, although mortally wounded the frothy blood 

 from the lungs was actually coming out of my first bullet- 



