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find it at the exact place he left it walks away and hardly ever 

 seems to be able to find the kill if it has been moved out of sight. 



Two bulls are often found together ; they are almost always small 

 heads not worth shooting. Large herds of twenty or more have gene- 

 rally one very good bull with them. The old solitary bulls too seem 

 sometimes to have a herd they join. I have, when tracking a solitary 

 has left it bull, found that he has joined a herd, and when again dis- 

 turbed, he and gone ofiP by himself. I have also found- an old bull 

 with a herd which he left when he saw me and ran away in a 

 different direction to the on,p the herd took. I shot a solitary bull not 

 far from the Udanti river that inhabited a rocky stony country, 

 where no other buffalo were, and the people there told me he had been 

 there for four years alone. 



Buffalo, though not partial to hills, will cross low ranges, and I saw 

 one once that had taken up its quarters for the day on a hill side. 

 It is true the hills in which he was were quite low ones. As his head 

 was a poor one I left him. I have never tried shooting them from 

 horseback. Once I rode a large herd ihat were out on a plain, with- 

 out any offensive weapon in my hand, and quickly overtook them. 

 When I got about eighty yards from them, they suddenly stopped and 

 wheeled round and stood. I sheered off without stopping to ask any 

 questions, and they after standing some minutes resumed their flight. 

 The bulls appear to fight a good deal. I shot an old one that was 

 covered with wounds. One of his horns was broken off, so that some 

 inches of the bony core on which the horn grows was exposed to view. 

 He was in a dreadful state ; large holes in his quarter where he had 

 been prodded from behind were full of maggots. There were other 

 wounds in front and a long wound across the face. One of his hind 

 legs was ripped to the bone from the fetlock to the hock, and the horn 

 of one of his heels was knocked oft\ He was very emaciated and 

 would probably have died soon. 



Colonel Ward shot an old bull with horns very like those of No. 2 

 on plate C ; one of the horns, bony core and all, was broken short off 

 within a foot of the head. The enormous force required to effect this 

 can be imagined. I also saw a cow half of whose horn and bony core 

 had been snapped off. Pieces are chipped off the horns too in fights. 

 The right horn of No. 1 on plate B has a large flake knocked off". 

 The left horn of No. 2 on plate C has a large piece knocked out at the 



