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seemed to have drawn savageness from their mothers' 

 udder. One of the negroes, after many attempts to 

 capture a calf, seized the brute by the tail, threw 

 himself from his horse on to the body of the calf, 

 and thus bore it to the earth. 



At length, when we had slain victims enough to 

 supply the neighbourhood with beef, we returned to 

 the house; — and thus ended our wild cattle hunt. 



