BUFFALO. 
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escaped from the buffalo, he would infallibly have 
been drowned, had he not caught hold of some 
strong roots of a tree shooting out of a bank ; and 
there he lay in perfect safety from the enemy, till 
our servants went round, and brought him out of the 
pool on the further side. 
£t In the mean time, the buffalo, mortally wounded, 
seeing his enemy had escaped, kept his eyes intent 
upon us, who were about forty yards from him, 
walking backwards to us, with intent to turn sud- 
denly upon the nearest horse ; when Ayto Confu 
ordered two men with guns to shoot him through 
the head, and he instantly fell. The two we first 
killed were females ; this last was a bull, and one of 
the largest, confessedly, that had ever been seen. 
Though not fat, I guess that he weighed nearer fifty 
than forty stone. His horns, from the root, follow- 
ing the line of their curve, were about fifty-two 
inches, and nearly nine where thickest in circum- 
ference. They were flat, not round. Ayto Confu 
ordered the head to be cut off, and cleared of its 
flesh, so that the horns and skeleton of the head only 
remained : this he hung up in his great hall among 
the probosces of elephants, and horns of rhinoceroses, 
with this inscription in his own language : c Yagoube , 
the Kipt, killed this upon the Bedowid ” 
Our figure was done from a fine portrait of a 
wild buffalo, drawn by Mr. S. Daniell during his 
travels in Africa. 
