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CH. yt] dangerous buffaloes 
indeed, the only ones that we saw in this neighbourhood 
happened to be on domestic cattle—in other places we 
found them very common on rhinoceros. At night the 
buffalo sometimes came right into the cultivated fields, 
and even into the garden close by the Boer farmer’s 
house, and once at night he had shot a bull. The bullet 
went through the heart, but the animal ran to the 
papyrus swamp, and was found next day dead just 
within the edge. Usually the main herd, of bulls, cows, 
and calves, kept together ; but there were outlying bulls 
found singly or in small parties. Not only the natives, 
but the whites, were inclined to avoid the immediate 
neighbourhood of the papyrus swamp, for there had 
been one or two narrow escapes from unprovoked 
attacks by the buffalo. The farmer told us that a man 
who was coming to see him had been regularly followed 
by three bulls, who pursued him for quite a distance. 
There is no doubt that in certain circumstances buffalo, 
in addition to showing themselves exceedingly dangerous 
opponents when wounded by hunters, become truculent 
and inclined to take the offensive themselves. There 
are places in East Africa where, as regards at least 
certain herds, this seems to be the case ; and in Uganda 
the buffalo have caused such loss of life, and such 
damage to the native plantations, that they are now 
ranked as vermin and not as game, and their killing is 
encouraged in every possible way. The list of white 
hunters that have been killed by buffalo is very long, 
and includes a number of men of note, while accidents 
to natives are of constant occurrence. 
The morning after making our camp we started at 
dawn for the buffalo ground, Kermit and I, Cuninghame 
and Heatley, and the Boer farmer, with three big, 
powerful dogs. We walked near the edge of the 
