ADVENTURE WITH BUFFALO 93 



Galazi to the camp to call the other boys, we commenced 

 to skin and cut up our prize. 



It proved to be the buffalo I hit in the neck (only 

 a flesh wound) and in the chest (the bullet passing 

 between the shoulder-blades and ribs) with my second 

 and third shots. My first bullet, as it charged, struck 

 it on the nose, but evidently passed below the brain 

 without touching the neck bones ; the second entered 

 the skull about an inch below the left eye, and, as I 

 was lying on somewhat higher ground and the head 

 was thrown back, the soft -nosed nickel bullet passed 

 into the brain. Besides those four wounds it had 

 received six others more or less severe." 



A companion on one of Mr. Findlay's sporting trips 

 had a terrible experience with an African buffalo. Mr. 

 Findlay relates the story in his record of sport and 

 travel in Portuguese East Africa ! : "I was one morn- 

 ing about to start for the Umsindusi River with half 

 a dozen boys when Bertie Emmett arrived and reported 

 that our companion, Cameron, had been charged and 

 badly injured by a buffalo, and was in a most pre- 

 carious condition ; in fact, he said Polly had been 

 dispatched in post-haste to Nongomo to try to get 

 a doctor. I had my pony saddled at once, and set off 

 for the Manzibomvu camp to see poor old Cameron. 



On arriving at the camp I was glad to see Cameron 

 sitting on a box in the tent, though bandaged up 

 pretty well from head to foot. He found the pains in 

 his chest were more severe when he lay down. 



It appears that shortly after I set out for the head 

 camp on the previous morning, Cecil Emmett and 

 Cameron left camp, accompanied by Gobotoo and Polly, 

 1 See Bibliography, 4. 



