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ceeded in killing the formidable creature with an 
assagai ; Pelangye however was so terrified at 
the sight of the lion that he fled hastily, and, 
falling in his flight, his foot was pierced by the 
assagai which he carried. 
On another occasion, v/hile he and two com- 
panions were watching cattle in the Tammaha 
country, a small party of Barrolongs came to 
rob the cattle-kraal, when he and the other 
watchers beat them off. Ten of the assailants he 
killed with his own hand. One of his companions 
however was so desperately wounded, that they 
abandoned him as dead ; the crows too had 
begun to tear the wounded parts of his body, but 
some of them returning and discovering signs of 
life, carried him to their own houses, and by 
kind treatment he recovered, and still lives on 
the Krooman, a little to the westward of N. 
Lattakoo. 
On one occasion, when pursued by a buftalo, 
he effected an escape by concealing himself in 
the midst of a thorn-bush, and pulling over him 
as many of the branches as he could for pro- 
tection. The enraged animal came to the 
very spot where he was hid, and began to ex- 
amine the bush ; when suddenly letting go the 
bended branches the buffalo was startled and ran 
off. Upon another occasion a lion advanced 
