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who was still on his legs, knocked him over again and finished 

 him with a shot behind the ear. I then went after number two 

 and killed him without any difficulty. The fight had been quite 

 knocked out of him. 



Buffaloes appear to charge much more readily when hunted 

 with a line of elephants or from boats than when stalked on 

 foot. In the first case at all events the buffalo is generally 

 roused from his midday sleep, and attacked at close quarters, 

 when his temper is ruffled, while when stalked on foot he gets 

 such a severe wound when feeding (probably without seeing his 



1 He gave him a tremendous punishing' " 



enemy) that the fight is knocked out of him to start with. Still 

 fatal instances have occurred, notably in the case of Mr. 

 Chatterton, of the police, who was killed by a buffalo in 1886. 

 Kinloch gives an account of a bull charging elephants both 

 before and after being wounded. When they have thoroughly 

 made up their minds to fight, buffaloes will, as a rule, carry out. 

 their plans most resolutely ; but wild ones, though in a less 

 degree, have the same kind of slow-wittedness that is so 

 remarkable in tame buffaloes. If a European rides past a 

 herd of tame buffaloes in some rather out-of-the-way district 



