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stupendous manner; and this death song of his 
filled us all with no small degree of joy, on account 
of the victory we had gained : and so thoroughly is 
the human heart sometimes steeled to the sufferings 
of the brute creation, that we hastened forwards, 
in order to have the pleasure of seeing the buffalo 
struggle with the pangs of death. I chanced to be 
first at the spot ; but think it impossible ever to be- 
hold anguish, accompanied by a savage fierceness, 
painted in stronger colours than they were in the 
countenance of this buffalo. I was within ten steps 
of him, when he perceived me, and, bellowing, raised 
himself suddenly again on his hind legs. I had 
since reason to believe that I was at the time very 
much frightened ; for, before I could well take my 
aim, I fired off my gun, and the shot missed the 
whole of his huge body, and only hit him in the 
hind legs, as we afterwards discovered by the size 
of the ball. Immediately upon this I ran away like 
lightning, in order to look out for some tree to climb 
up into: but my apprehensions were groundless; he 
was too much exhausted to pursue me, and died 
soon after.” 
In Caffraria, when several buffaloes are seen to- 
gether, and it is intended to hunt them, the man 
who discovers the place where they are, blows a 
pipe made of the thigh-bone of a sheep, which is 
heard at a great distance, and immediately obeyed 
by the surrounding inhabitants ; who, armed w ith 
their javelins, assemble together, and attack the 
