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intention to take his wife and only child and follow . 
us. 
But he had another story to tell, viz., that of the 
Masai bullock. Unaware of its presence, he had 
entered the hut in which it had been bound, and had 
run a close chance of being gored to death by it. 
The brute had fiercely attacked him, yet such was 
his position that he could not make his escape. In 
self-defence he drew his knife and cut and slashed 
right and left, in the end succeeding in bringing his 
antagonist to the earth. Then he described how he 
drank its blood, and calHng a number of Gallas 
together, how they devoured its carcass. In the 
relation of this fact Gurene grew quite animated and 
eloquent. Buiya laughed heartily as the man told 
the story, and did not seem to apprehend any fatal 
consequences from the death of the beast. Some of 
us felt a little annoyed at the accident which had 
robbed us of our beef. 
While resting at this place our men complained 
of hunger. They had been supplied with means of 
obtaining several days' food, yet had omitted doing 
so, and they were now suffering in consequence. We 
had been supplying them from our own private stores, 
but if we continued to do this we should soon be 
without ourselves. What could be done } We were 
in the neighbourhood of game, why not try our hand 
at bagging some of it "i we did so. During the chase 
I came upon the largest number of apes I ever saw. 
They started out of a thicket directly before me, and 
made off in great alarm, screaming in the wildest and 
most unearthly manner. They were as large as the 
orang-outang. 
