AFRICA. £64 
Aem behind ; and on the other by my fhots, 
which I diredted to the only paffage that re? 
mained for them to efcape death. They agi? 
tated their bodies as much as the enormity ancj 
heavinefs of them would permit ; while their 
deafening cries, and the crafhing of the trees 
which they broke in retreating or flying, 
formed fuch a dreadful tumult, that the fight 
of it frightened me, though I was fheltered 
by my rock, and could not be difturbed in any 
manner. We wounded one, which for a 
moment feparated from the troop ; but it 
foon joined them ; and being confounded with 
the reft, it would have been very difficult to 
take aim at it again. From the nature of its 
bellowing, I imagine it was mortally wound- 
ed, and that it could pot long furvive ; but 
we did not think proper to go immediately in 
fearch of, it, being firmly perfuaded that it 
could not efcape us. 
In this new kind of hunting I had no other 
viev/ than to procure one of thefe animals ; 
which were faid to be of a different fpecies 
from all thofe I had before feen. Satisfied 
with having wounded one, and confidering it 
as certainly dead, I refblved not to go in fearch 
pf it till the next morning : I confeqaently 
recalled 
