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to assure it of safety. She frequently looked back to the 

 men, who kept up an incessant shouting, singing, and 

 piping ; then looked at her young one, and ran after it, 

 sometimes sideways, as if her feelings were divided 

 between anxiety to protect her offspring and desire to 

 revenge the temerity of her persecutors. The men 

 kept about a hundred yards in her rear, and some that 

 distance from her flanks, and continued thus until she 

 was obliged to cross a rivulet. The time spent in 

 descending and getting up the opposite bank, allowed 

 of their coming up to the edge and discharging their 

 spears at about twenty yards' distance. After the first 

 discharge she appeared with her sides red with blood, 

 and beginning to flee for her own life, seemed to think 

 no more of her young. 



"Iliad previously sent off Sekweba, with orders to 

 spare the calf. He ran very fast, but neither young 

 nor old ever - enter into a gallop. Their quickest pace 

 is only a sharp walk. Before Sekweba could reach 

 them, the calf had taken refuge in the water and was 

 killed. The pace of the dam gradually became slower. 

 She turned with a shriek of rage, and made a furious 

 charge back among the men. They vanished at right 

 angles to her course, or sideways; and as she ran 

 straight on, she went through the whole party, but 

 came near no one, except a man who wore a piece of 

 cloth on his shoulders. Bright clothing is always 



