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his way rather slowly and painfully along, and I 

 brought him down with the '350. 



He had not a particularly good head, the 

 circumference measurement being only 7 feet 

 2j- inches, and the horns, though massive, were 

 circular rather than elliptic. I had also made 

 two bad mistakes of judgment and some bad 

 shooting, and the only satisfaction I could get 

 out of the business was that I had stuck to him 

 persistently in thick jungle at considerable personal 

 risk, and had eventually finished him off. 



We then moved camp to the village in the 

 Zamindari, where Tweedie and Mihndu, the syce, 

 had had the adventure with the bear in 1909, and 

 where Deo Singh reported that there was a big 

 bull-buffalo. This bull was disposed to be savage, 

 and had chased two or three people. On arrival 

 at the village a local shikari showed us tracks 

 of the buffalo; but Kana considered that none 

 of the tracks were absolutely fresh, and he was 

 therefore in favour of trying the ground where 

 we had met with so much success in 1909. We 

 accordingly started on the following morning for 

 Taurenga. The bull, however, was in the forest 

 near the village ; and, as we were on the march 

 before dawn, we came upon him in a large clearing 

 in the forest through which we had to pass. He 

 was a huge beast, and looked magnificent in the 

 grey of the dawn ; and the syce, who had taken 

 Mihndu' s place, and who had not before seen a 

 wild buffalo, was lost in amazement at his size. 

 Deo Singh was with me with the '350, but Kana 

 was behind with the big rifle. The bull was about 

 200 yards from me, and, as I was in the open 



