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had he not caught hold of fome ftrong roots of a tree fhoot- 
ing out of the bank ; and there he lay in perfec fafety from 
the enemy, till our reavkhes went round, and brought him 
out of the pool on the further fide. 
In the mean time, the buffalo, mortally wounded, feeing 
his enemy had efcaped, kept his eyes intent upon us, who 
were about forty yards from him, walking backwards to- 
wards us, with intent to turn fuddenly upon the neareft 
horfe; when Ayto Confu ordered two men with guns to 
fhoot him through the head, and he inftantly fell. The two 
we firft killed were females; this laft was a bull, and one 
of the largeft, confefiedly, that chad ever been feen. Though 
not fat,I guefs he weighed nearer fifty than forty ftone. His 
horns from the root, following the line of their curve, were 
about fifty-two inches, and nearly nine where thickeft in 
the circumference. They were flat, not round, Ayto Con- 
fu ordered the head to be cut off, and cleared of its fleth, fo 
chat the horns and fkeleton of the head only remained ; this 
he hung up in his great hall among the probofces of ele- 
phants, and horns of rhinocerofes, with this infcription in 
his own language, “ Yagoube the Kipt killed this upon the Bedowi,” 
Wer were now within fight of home, to which we went 
firaight without further hunting. Neither the ridicule nor 
the condolence of the young men could force-one word 
from Ammonios; only when I afked him whether or not 
he was hurt, he anfwered from the fcripture, “ He that lo- 
“ veth danger fhall perifh in it.” But at night Ozoro Efther, 
either really or feignedly, exprefling herielf as difpleafed 
with her fon Ayto Confu, Ammonios, who loved the young 
man fincerely, could not bear to be the occafion of this ; fo 
a that 
