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the crashing of bending and breaking branches, were 
all we could see or hear. I looked for the Bushmen ; 
they were in full flight, fifty paces from me, but when 
they saw the Pedjami was in retreat, they turned round 
and set off in pursuit. It was already so late, that, 
although the bushes and sand were plentifully sprinkled 
with blood, we were soon obliged to give up following 
our wounded prey, and it was not till a few days later 
that the Bushman found the dead body. He brought 
the short horn to me on the Tati, as a trophy. 
Before we got back to the camp we saw a herd of 
some hundred buffaloes on a rising ground, wending 
their way to the right bank of the Sacha. They were 
marching in closely serried ranks, and every now and 
