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tongue, and hanging them up in a tree, we went off 
for water, and had not gone far when I saw another, 
about twenty yards off, looking at me, uneasy, and 
apparently trying to screen herself from being 
seen. I waited some time till she turned, and 
then shot her behind the shoulder, when she im¬ 
mediately came at me, but a ball in the centre of 
her forehead stopped her progress, and she fell dead 
not ten yards from me: a lucky shot, as I hardly knew 
where to fire, and I had not an instant to lose. I 
must have been impaled on her very long horn if I 
had not been fortunate enough to kill her. She had 
a very young calf, squealing most lustily, which 
the dogs were fighting with. I got them off, and 
wanted very much to take him to the wagon, and 
sent off my Kaffirs forthwith for half a dozen fellows 
