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succeeded, and the buffaloes emerged from the 

 wooded slope on to the level ground rather more 

 than 100 yards from me, galloping at a fair pace. 

 A cow with big horns first caught my eye, and 

 I half raised my -450 to fire, but fortunately 

 refrained from doing so. Then, from the middle 

 of the herd, an unmistakable bull appeared and 

 crossed over to the left. Wasting no time over 

 the shot, I aimed and fired at his retreating 

 stern. He flinched, and, swerving sharp to the 

 left, disappeared down the slope. 



Dhokuri agreed with me that it was a hit ; 

 but, when Tweedie and the others came up, we 

 followed for some distance the tracks of the 

 herd, and, as there was no blood, they thought 

 that I had missed. I was confident that the 

 bull was wounded, and further investigation 

 in the sandy bed of the nullah showed that the 

 bull had, as I surmised, left the herd and crossed 

 the nullah alone. There was some blood on his 

 track, but not much of it, the bullet having, 

 as we afterwards found, broken the hind-leg 

 near the buttock. As the bull was galloping 

 directly away from me, it was a good shot, but 

 I was lucky to cripple him so effectually. 



We waited a little in the nullah and then followed 

 the track, and before we had gone far the shikari 

 saw the wounded bull standing in some bushes 

 at a distance of about 200 yards. Before we 

 had made him out he saw us and started off, 

 limping badly. I raised my rifle to fire, but 

 Tweedie, who had not at this time had much 

 experience of big-game shooting with high velo- 

 city rifles, thought that a shot at that distance 



