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never heard a buffalo bellow before nor have I since ; and on making 

 for the spot whence the noise proceeded, I came to an open glade of 

 short grass, and saw in the jnngle on the opposite side, a hundred 

 and twenty yards away, what I first thought was a solitary bull, but 

 soon saw was a cow. As I stood looking at. her, she saw me and at 

 once came straight for me full speed. I waited till she was thirty 

 yards off and was just about to fire, when she suddenly pulled 

 up on the brink of a small rift in the ground, out of which a newly- 

 born calf, that I had not seen before, came. It looked quite yellow, 

 being covered with light hair. I think it could only just 

 have been born as it walked in a tottering fashion. The calf 

 went to its mother, who then turned round and walked slowly away 

 across the glade, stopping every few yards, uttering low grunts of 

 encouraoement to its young one which with difficulty followed it. 

 They disappeared into the jungle, and I then departed in the opposite 

 direction. A herd of buffalo never charge, sometimes they bolt in 

 the direction you are if they don't know where the shot comes from, 

 and there is a slight chance of being run over. If they see you, they 

 turn off. A solitary bull I followed for three days, and that I put up 

 several times in long grass close to me, and fired at half a dozen times, 

 woundino- him on the first and second day, did not charge me. I 

 did not know better then, and so fired at his stern j all I could see when- 

 ever he got up in the grass. On ih^ third day I lost his tracks after 

 going for several hours without coming up to him, and on this day four 

 villagers happened to pass the clump of bushes he was in. He 

 charo-ed them and drove one horn into a man's ribs and the other through 

 the palm of his hand splitting the hand up. I did not hear of this for 

 four days as my camp was a long way off. I went to the place, and 

 heard that the bull had^been seen that day near the river by an old 

 woman o-oing to get water. My advent was hailed with joy as the 

 villagers about were naturally afraid to go out of the villages. Next 

 morning I soon found the tracks of the bull. Two village dogs accom- 

 panied me and I found the bull was evidently in a bad temper, as here 

 and there we came on bushes and ant-hills levelled to the ground by 

 his horns. After tracking some miles the dogs went into a thick clump 

 and began barking, and I then heard the buffalo chasing them about. 

 It was too thick to see anything. I was standing about ten yards out- 



