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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
C-got an ostrich on the way, and B-killed 
a buffallo that had evidently made up its mind to kill 
him. He was hunting about in thick bush, when he 
suddenly heard a grunt and snort so near at hand that 
it inspired him to make a dash for an ant-heap, about 
four feet high, that was hard by. In another instant 
a buffalo had crashed out of the bush and was charg¬ 
ing full tilt at the ant-heap. B-, who had climbed 
up the refuge, took a shot at his head about eight yards 
off, but made a miss, and then jumped down from the 
ant-heap, thinking he would be better able to dodge 
his antagonist round its base. But this manoeuvre was 
completely put out of joint by the buffalo taking the 
obstacle as a hunter takes a double ditch and hedge, 
and as he topped the ant-heap B- had only just 
time to thrust the muzzle of his 577° rifle in the brute’s 
face, and press the trigger without putting the butt to 
his shoulder. Fortunately this shot hit the animal 
near the eye, and with the satisfactory result of causing 
it to turn a complete somersault and fall dead at 
B-’s feet. O11 examination he found that one 
foot of this buffalo was in a bad state of mortification, 
the result of an old wound probably effected by one 
of the W’Andarobbu : this must have caused the poor 
brute much pain, and doubtless accounted for his 
unprovoked attack on B-. 
Later in the afternoon some of the gun-bearers, who 
had been left behind to bring in the head, arrived in 
a high state of excitement, and reported that they had 
been chased by some of the W’Arusha, and that during 
