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and streaked with blood, and his clothes torn and gory. 

 He had pains all over his chest and back, but Cecil 

 did not think that any ribs were broken, although his 

 body was badly bruised. Examination of his face 

 showed a deep cut, from the point of the chin up the 

 left cheek to just below the ear, partly laying bare the 

 jawbone, and several other cuts, none of which, how- 

 ever, were very severe. After bathing the wounds in 

 a spruit close by and bandaging up the one on his 

 cheek, Emmett and Polly, supporting Cameron, who 

 pluckily insisted on walking, set out for the camp, which 

 was about two miles distant. They reached it after many 

 halts, and before long Cameron had swallowed a good 

 ' tot ' of old Scotch whisky, and Emmett had got out 

 the medicine-chest and attended to and bandaged up 

 his wounds and made him generally as comfortable as 

 possible in the tent. 



Polly was dispatched on horseback to Nongomo to 

 try to get a doctor, and Goboto returned to the buffalo 

 carcass, which had been screened with grass from the 

 searching eyes of the vultures, with a couple of boys 

 to skin and bring it in. 



We constructed a sort of chair, slung by strips of 

 raw buffalo hide between two long poles, and securing 

 the services of ten local natives, had our friend carried 

 to Crosly's place on the top of the Magowie mountain. 

 The boys had all their work cut out, for although the 

 distance was only eight or ten miles, the country was 

 rough and mountainous. Crosly kindly undertook to 

 look after Cameron in his house. Emmett and I, seeing 

 him comfortably settled, proceeded to our head camp, 

 about a mile distant. 



Polly was fortunate enough to find a military 



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