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within a few yards of them, whereas, noise 

 and shouting only drive them away 

 altogether. 



Before going very far, a splendid buffalo 

 bull sprang up just in front of me, 

 and I let drive at him, but did not 

 touch him in a vital part. In a second 

 he turned, and, with his formidable 

 horns lowered, he came full at me; not 

 expecting such marked attention, I was 

 unprepared to give him a shot in the 

 head, so I popped behind a tree (which 

 fortunately I was just passing at the time), 

 and I was none too soon, for the top of his 

 horn took a piece out of my shooting 

 jacket, which, however, was better than 

 taking a bit of my flesh along with it. He 

 pursued his headlong course, knocking 

 over one of the coolies in rear, which 

 caused a wonderful amount of chattering 



