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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
allowed him to come close up, but as he would 
persist in facing me, I was reluctant to spend my 
last bullet, and it was long ere I got a shot to my 
liking. At last, however, he gave me a broadside, 
and I gave him a settler. He was certainly the 
savagest old monster I ever had the pleasure of 
seeing. 
I had to return to camp seven or eight miles in a 
woful plight, minus my hat, and my shirt torn to 
ribbons, exposed to a fearful hot sun, and my whole 
body blistered and sunburnt, giving me great pain, 
and my throat and tongue parched up for want of 
water. I was well greased with eland fat from 
head to foot, which was a great relief to me, but 
for several days I coidd rest in no position from the 
frightful extent of the sun-burns, than which I know 
nothing more painful, as every atom of skin peels off. 
I found my eland nearly eaten up, but I brought his 
horns back as a trophy. 
16th .—Went out on foot, as Billy had had two 
hard days in succession. I saw a buffalo canter away, 
and then stop in a thick bush. I followed, got a shot, 
and heard the bullet tell. He was a long way off, and 
going at full speed. I had another shot without effect, 
followed on, and next saw him lying at full length. 
I spoke to the Kaffirs, when the beast immediately 
jumped up and faced us. The Kaffirs disappeared 
like smoke. I gave him a shot meant for the breast, 
but it struck him in the neck and he at once charged. 
Fortunately, Crafty was between us, and he made a 
