TENACITY FOR LIFE. 219 
he bring down the first, the others will per- 
haps retire a little, when he may sometimes 
approach behind the fallen buffalo, and shoot 
several others 
The tenacity of these animals for life is often 
very extraordinary. When one receives even 
a mortal shot, he frequently appears not hurt 
—he seems to disdain to flinch—but will curl 
his tail and step about as though he neither 
felt nor feared anything! If left undisturbed, 
however, he begins to stagger, and in a few 
moments expires: but if- provoked, he might 
run for miles before he would fall. I have 
seen a party of hunters around a wounded 
and enraged bull, fire, at a few paces distance, 
a dozen or two shots, aimed at his very heart, 
without their seeming to have any effect till 
his anger cooled, when in an instant he would 
lie lifeless upon the ground. In such cases, 
the inexperienced hunter often aims to shoot 
them in the brain, but without success. Owing 
not only to the thickness of the scull, but to 
the matted wool upon it, I have never wit- 
nessed an instance of a rifle-ball's penetrating 
to the brain of a buffalo b 
The ‘still-hunter’ must maets be upon his 
guard ; for the wounded buffalo is prone to 
make battle ,upon the too near approach of 
his enemy. With a little presence of mind, 
however, his attacks are easily shunned. If 
he make a lunge, the pedestrian hunter has 
only to wheel abruptly to one side; for the 
animal is apt to pass on in a direc ct line. T 
have never heard of a serious accident of the 
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