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piece of i^rass .-iiul hushes, my companion, some thirty or forty 

 yards to my loft. Mud rather behind, when suddenly up rose 

 a hull from a cluster of hushes beyond P., and at once made 

 Mi him most viciously. Startled by the unexpected charge, 

 T. fired MII ineirectnal shot, and the next moment he would 



proba.bly ha.ve been tossed info the :iir had not M two and 



M liM,ll' ounce steel-tipped conical bullet from my rifle struck die 



bull fairly between the eyes, and cnsl him dead on (he earth. 



This proved to he the bull Bounded on the preceding 

 day, whose hea.d Mud horns we had coveted. Having received 

 M, sliot in an extremely delicate part of his person, and 

 suH'ered much pain from the wound, the bull naturally was 

 both savage and \indic(ivi\ Descrying us from his lair 

 before wo were able to make out his form as it lay in the 

 t;m.-ded ^rass and bushes, ho had no doubt calculated on 

 makini; an example of us, The head was retained by P., 

 who used occasionally to regard it with serious attention, as 



il' he were calciilal i u-' the probable results of impact between 

 it and his portly person, addiii;;- a hii^h momentum to (he 

 former prior to collision. 



1 may add that, next day we- ajn,in found the herd, and 

 killed two more bulls out of it, allowing the rest to go ; :md. 



in addition, we ba^vd two spotted stilus, and a very fine 



panther of the grass variety. 



P. und I had another adventure with hullaloes. which 

 may be recorded as something out of the common kind. 



Shooting upon our elephants in Erinch, in the Hidg 



Country, wo cam o upon a \\ide plain, in the midst, 

 :i, herd of seventy >r ei-dity bullaloes were .;ra:-.i u;-; or ren ( >,iii";. 

 I he (ime be i ii"' e;i i'l \' morn in< ^ in the I'old -.e.'i'-on , a m is( hunjjj 

 over the low v;round, which ma";nitied the forms of the 

 animals to tnilv ",i",antic proportions. 



'I'hi.-; herd was known to us as exi.remely wild, it ha\ni;'; 

 been frequently di.sliirbed and tired upon, and we kne\\ loo 

 that, there was no hope of our a.pproachin."; it within rille 

 range OH the bare plain, but as its usual line of retreat into 

 (.overt, was also known to us, there was a \\ a \ of cir 



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