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surgeon at Nongomo, who arrived in a couple of 

 days, and assured us that there was no internal injury, 

 and that Cameron would be about in a week or ten 

 days if he remained perfectly quiet. In ten days 

 Cameron was able to sit his pony, and before another 

 month had passed was once more in Johannesburg, none 

 the worse for his extraordinary experience, but showing 

 a fine scar on his sun -tanned cheek." 



The following exciting adventure is from Major 

 Jack's volume on exploration and sport in Central 

 Africa l : " Once, down by the Ishasha River, Captain 

 Prittie and I came on a buffalo, which he shot with 

 his '600, an immensely powerful rifle, which few people 

 use nowadays ; in fact, it takes a man of more than 

 average size and strength to wield it with any comfort. 

 We got the head off and the carcass cut up, and the 

 porters were dispatched to camp with the meat. A few 

 minutes later, however, they came running back to 

 say they had met the herd. We went up and soon 

 found the spot where the rencontre had occurred ; it 

 was plainly marked by the dismembered limbs of the 

 dead buffalo, which the porters had thrown down in 

 their fright. The buffalo, we found, were a little 

 beyond, invisible in the thick, bushy country. We 

 worked our way up to them, and then found that they 

 had all gathered together in an open space ; in fact, 

 as we came in sight of them they were formed in line, 

 in the way they have. On this day my orderly, All 

 Gadum, was carrying my heavy rifle, and as we caught 

 sight of them I handed him my "350 and took the 

 double-barrelled '500. It was his duty to give this to 

 me loaded, and I had got so accustomed to receiving it 

 1 See Bibliography, 12. 



