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mercy, Confidering them as part of our live 
ftock^ we did not fpare them ; for, whenever 
our provifions began to fall low, I brought 
down a couple of them- Not one of them 
efcaped us ; and their fKiins, when joined 
together, made a pretty covering for the wag- 
gon I had repaired at Pampoen-Kraal. 
As large troops of buffaloes came to browfe 
in our fight, on the other fide of the Queur* 
Boom, we gave chace to them, and caught 
feveral of them. 
This animal is remarkably wild, and one 
muft attack it with great precaution in the 
woods ; but in the open fields it is not 
formidable. It fears, and flies from the pre- 
fence of a man- The fureft way of catching 
^ it, is to harafs it with dogs. Whilft it is en- 
gaged in defending itfelf, a bullet in the head, 
or the omopiate, v/ill inllantly difpatch it. The 
bullets to be ufed muft be of a large fize, and 
made either of tin or lead. If the animal is 
not wounded in the two places above men- 
tioned, it will efcape. 
Its horns are very large and divergent. By 
the clofenefs of their roots to each other, on 
the forehead, one would almoft imagine that 
they proceed from the fame bafe. The buf- 
faloe 
