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ON SAFARI 
My brother’s experience was similar. The forest, by 
day, was clearly impossible. 
One evening, while yet clear daylight reigned, six 
buffalo emerged from the forest and were feeding in an 
“ open.” We felt that at last our chance had come, and 
A HORNBILL OF THE MAU FOREST. 
got well in, but alas ! all were cows. At dusk we heard 
another within the bush-wall, and reached a spot to 
command his exit; but ere he appeared half-an-hour 
later, at 100 yards, heavy clouds, with solid rain, had 
obscured the slight moon, and we could not see to 
shoot. 
Obviously these forest-opens afforded our only 
chance. They varied in size from mere pastures of 100 
