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buffalo had killed an old woman and a young Boran 

 boy, and had badly wounded another native that had 

 been out herding sheep. I did not have time to go 

 out after the animal. I knew it ought to be killed, 

 for there is probably no more dangerous animal than 

 the buffalo in such a state. Nor did I want Osa to go 

 after it. 



But the Boran said that the beast could be found 

 in the crater of an old extinct volcano, where we 

 could sit atop a rock and shoot it as it walked out. 

 Osa had never been after buffalo. And when she 

 heard that there might be some excitement she was 

 all for going. Finally she dispelled my apprehensions 

 and set off with the same boys she had taken on her 

 Kudu hunt. 



She spent three days in the chase. She saw the 

 buffalo every day at the bottom of the old extinct 

 crater over on the edge of the Kaisoot Desert where it 

 seemed to live. But she couldn't get at it on account 

 of the heavy brush thereabouts. 



Finally on the fourth day she got a bimch of 

 Borans camped nearby to take their half-wild dogs 

 and form a drive through the bush in order to drive 

 the buffalo towards her. The drive was successfvJ 

 in short order. The buffalo came charging down 

 upon the rock where Osa was perched. She jimiped 

 off and ran directly in the path of the furious animal. 

 At ten feet she let him have a bullet from her 405. 



