SINA’S BRAVES ROUTED BY A RHINO. 
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with the buffalo, as he bagged four or five with very 
fair heads. 
As soon as I recovered from my attack I determined 
to examine the thick bush on the left bank of the river, 
and found the spot simply swarming with buffalo. I 
kept putting them up like rabbits at every few hundred 
yards, but without getting any chance of a shot. Once 
I found myself in the middle of a big herd, and to 
our mutual discomfiture. The beasts dashed off in all 
directions, and I heard them in front, behind, on my 
right and at my left, but I never caught sight of a 
solitary head or tail. Some distance farther on, two 
charged in their wild career right through my group 
of gun-bearers, who were within ten yards of me, so 
T could not shoot without endangering them. Need¬ 
less to say they let off their rifles, aiming at every 
point of the compass in addition to that occupied by 
myself and the buffalo. However, we all escaped, and 
I believe without the slightest injury. 
Some of Sina’s men arrived, while we were here, with 
a present from their chief. Ten of them started on the 
complimentary visit, according to the account of the 
three who paid it in person ; the excuse for the de¬ 
ficient seven being that they had been charged by a 
rhino. The reality of the charge I doubt, but, that the 
original first detachment of ten ambassadors had been 
greatly weakened by a near view of so dreaded a beast, 
I quite believe. 
I secured a fine bush-buck near this camp, though, 
from the pace at which it started off after my shot, I 
