92 Notes on South African Hunting, 
Selous and Collison. 
to tusk him, and that he made a bad shot. The 
horse, singularly enough, recovered. 
A very plucky thing that Selous did once was 
this. He was hunting with Mr. Collison, and 
they came across two lions in the open. They 
had very few cartridges left, and had used them 
all before they wounded the lions. Lions, when 
they charge, seldom go more than two or three 
hundred yards, but this pair regularly laid 
down to their work, and chivied the hunters. 
Collison’s horse did what horses sometimes do 
when in great danger—utterly declined to 
gallop. Selous was some way ahead, but hear¬ 
ing Collison’s shout for help, rode back in 
between him and the lions, and so took them off 
his line. 
To return to the Boers. The lowest class 
Boer is the discontented man, who has nothing 
to lose and everything to get. His ultimate 
development is the filibuster. This is the class 
of man who makes all the disturbances on the 
borders. My experience of them shows me 
that they are one of the lowest specimens of 
humanity ; worse than natives by far. It may 
be thought that I speak bitterly of them for 
