BUFFALO 



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The day commenced with a rather startling- adventure. 

 We were walking in file, Baraka leading and Lowe just 

 behind me, when we suddenly stepped right atop of a 

 pack of hyenas, all sound asleep in deep grass. In a 

 moment the forest-glade was alive with great bouncing 



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FACE TO FACE. (Bull Buffalo). 



beasts. Baraka smartly handed me the rifle, and in the 

 same moment a huge old dog-hyena, presumably the 

 captain of the gang, and evidently aroused from deep 

 slumber by the flight of his troop, raised himself on his 

 haunches, as sketched, not two yards in front of where I 

 stood. Clearly he was blissfully unconscious of the fact 

 that I was almost "treading on his tail" ; nor did he ever 

 realise it, for a bullet in the nape laid him out. Two more 

 were knocked over by L.'s magazine-fire ere the pack got 



