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VICIOUS ELEPHANTS AND A BUFFALO 
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and finding Chingondo safe and sound, went over to 
where the buffalo lay dead. Placing the animal in 
position, I succeeded in getting an excellent photo¬ 
graph of him, the background of the picture giving 
an admirable illustration of the nature of the bush 
through which we had prosecuted our exciting hunt. 
THE BUFFALO THAT TOSSED CARRIER’S BOY. 
About a week after the incident related above, I 
chanced, one day in camp, to hear a very dismal 
howling in one of the native huts, and asking my 
boy to find out the cause of the woe, learnt that one 
of my carriers had been administering a sound 
thrashing to his servant, who happened to be the 
very man whom the buffalo of the foregoing story 
had tossed. Sending for the carrier, I enquired of 
