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and finding Chingondo safe and sound, went over to 

 where the buffalo lay dead. Placing the animal in 

 position, I succeeded in getting an excellent photo- 

 graph of him, the background of the picture giving 

 an admirable illustration of the nature of the bush 

 through which we had prosecuted our exciting hunt. 



THE BUFFALO THAT TOSSED CARRIER'S BOY. 



About a week after the incident related above, I 

 chanced, one day in camp, to hear a very dismal 

 howling in one of the native huts, and asking my 

 boy to find out the cause of the woe, learnt that one 

 of my carriers had been administering a sound 

 thrashing to his servant, who happened to be the 

 very man whom the buffalo of the foregoing story 

 had tossed. Sending for the carrier, I enquired of 



