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exact spot Avhere they had retreated for shelter and, thinking 
the opportunity too favourable to allow them to escape, 
crept close to the thicket with their dogs and their mus- 
kets. Schultz having the same day shot an ostrich had 
ornamented his hat with its waving plumes. Elate with 
the hope of success, he hastened without stopping towards 
the opening into which the animals had retired, when 
suddenly, and quite unexpectedly to him, a huge bull buf- 
falo came rushing out of the thicket and, eying for a mo- 
ment the white plume waving in his hat, bolted directly 
towards him. Schultz petiified with fear remained motion- 
less on the spot; and the buffalo, taking him up on the 
points of his horns, tossed him over his head many feet 
into the air, from whence he fell among the branches of a 
thorny mimosa. Daniell, having observed the fate of his 
companion, had just time enough to escape a similar en- 
counter by climbing into a tree. I'he buffalo being baited 
by the dogs, and observing the whole party coming up, 
thought fit to retire. Poor Schultz returned to the Avaggons, 
bloody, pale, and almost lifeless with terror; persisting, 
however, that he was not in the least hurt nor intimidated at 
what had happened ; but while he was speaking he fainted, 
and it was several da3^s before he recovered from the effects 
of his wounds and his fright. This, says Mr. Truter, was the 
last attempt he made to be thought a sportsman, having now 
learned b}^ experience that it was not the province of every 
one to turn buffalo hunter. 
On this occasion the buffalo, as well as the lion which 
bestrode the Hottentot, seems to have been actuated by a 
sense of injury and a spirit of retaliation. The elephant, 
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