EXPEKIMENTS ON A BUFFALO. 
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I found I had lost the use of my tongue, which I did 
not fully recover for many hours, and vowed over 
and over again I would hunt no more on Sunday, 
knowing it to be Sunday. 
I afterwards made some experiments with the 
buffalo, and found his brain so very narrow that there 
is every chance of missing it, in which case you do 
not injure him in the least. My bullet had penetrated 
between the eyes about two inches below the brain, 
which it had missed altogether, although close beside 
it. We cut out the ball just at the top of his head, 
within an inch of the hole into his brain. In 
my experiments I had all but killed my best dog, 
Ragman, in trying if the bullet would penetrate by 
shooting in the soft place between the horns. At 
night I sallied out by torchlight, to try to get a shot 
at some laughing hyenas, who had taken a water- 
buck skin from the very feet of the Kaffirs, and 
were laughing in fits over it, utterly heedless of the 
dogs. 
Ylth. — Got under weigh with some difficulty, as 
we had a large quantity of meat to carry. Killed 
four impalas, and then went to pitch on a place for 
our camp, near sunset. After making the necessary 
arrangements I strolled out to try and fire off my 
gun, as I wanted to clean it. I saw a hyena prowling 
along, and killed him so dead, at fully one hundred 
yards, that I thought he had dropped into a hole the 
moment I fired. 
18£/i.— I was awakened by a white rhinoceros 
