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wished to present to the College of the United Brethren, at Nisky, 
in Saxony. 
We found Mr. and Mrs. Van Roy at home, and -well pleased 
with our visit. After some conversation, we inquired about the 
horns. He related, that about ten days ago, he had met with 
and shot at the buffaloe, in a wood not far off, and wounded him 
in the leg. The animal fled, but being pursued and brought down 
by the dogs, was shot a second time through the head. When Mr. 
Van Roy showed us the head, he said, that he meant to make a 
tobacco-pipe of the points of the horns. We expressed our re- 
gret, that so beautiful a pair of horns should be destroyed in that 
way; but he replied, that it would cost him five dollars to get a 
pipe of that kind. Mr. Melville, vSupposing him to mean that 
each horn would make one pipe, asked me, in English, whether I 
would give ten dollars for the head, to which I agreed. On hear- 
ing this, the truly honest farmer exclaimed : — " Ten ! no, I said, five 
would be required to get a tobacco-pipe, and I will take no more 
from that gentleman.'^ A slave was then set to work to cut off 
the superfluous bone, and make it more portable. He now 
brought the head of a buffaloe cow, shot some time ago, and 
Avould have given it into the bargain, but I paid him what I had 
given for the first of the kind I purchased. 
He invited us to stay and dine with him. i^mong other 
questions respecting England, and English customs, he laid a 
case before us, wishing to know, how he was to act, consistently 
with English law. One of his Ilottentots had shot his neigh- 
bour's bull, mistaking him in the dark for a wild buffaloe. The 
neighbour required, that he should pay the damage, which he 
refused, on the ground that he had not shot it, and the Hot- 
tentot had nothing to pay. We told him, that in England, a 
master was responsible for the deeds of his servant, and the Hot- 
tentot having done it, while employed by him, and with his gun, 
we thought, that he would get nothing by a suit, but do best to 
