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fer to interfere; on the contrary, he clapped his hands, 
and cried, “ Well done, Ammonios,” {wearing he never faw 
fo equal a match in his life. The unfortunate Ammo- 
nios had been driven from tree to tree, till he had got be- 
hind one within a few yards of the water; but the brufh- 
wood upon the banks, and his attention: to the buffalo,. 
hindered him from feeing how far it was below him. No- 
thing could be more ridiculous than to fee him holding 
the tree with both his hands, peeping firft one way, and 
then another, to fee by which the beaft would turn. And 
well he might be on his guard; for the animal was abfo- - 
lutely mad, tofling up the ground with his feet both be- 
fore and behind. “ Sir, faid I, to Ayto Confu, this will be 
but an ugly joke to-night, if we bring home that man’s. 
corpfe, killed in the very midi cf us, while we were 
locking on.” Saying this, I parted at a canter behind the 
trees, crying to Ammonios to throw himfelf into the 
water, when I fhould ftrike the beaft; and feeing the 
butfalo’s head turned from me, at ful fpeed I ran the 
fpear into the lower part ‘of his belly, through his whole 
inteftines, till it came out above a foot on the other fide,, 
and there I left it, with a view to hinder the buffalo from 
turning. It was a {pear which, though fmall in the head, 
had a flrong, tough, feafoned fhaft, which did not break by 
ftriking it againft the trees and buthes, and it pained and 
impeded the animal’s motions, till Ammonios quitting the 
tree, dafhed throwgh the bufhes with fome difficulty, and 
threw himfelf into the river. But here a danger occurred 
thatI had not forefeen. The-pool was very deep, and 
Ammonios could not fwim; fo that though he efcaped 
from the buffalo, he would infallibly have been drowned, 
va had 
