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the same agent through his own ox-hide target, proceeded to a minute practical illustration of the circumstances which led 
to the catastrophe, by placing Andries’ clumsy elephant-gun against a pliant tree, in such a manner that it also fell down, 
and was discharged—though fortunately without fracturing any more legs. The wnhappy Piet being shortly afterwards 
bronght in upon a litter, our nervous anxiety respecting him was not a little relieved by an inspection of the damaged 
limb, which, thongh dreadfully burnt and lacerated, was providentially unbroken. The ball having glanced round the shin 
bone, had perforated “Lingap's buckler, as already deseribed, and passing through the carease of the defunct bull, upon which 
some dozen savages were busily feasting, had finally winged its wanton flight into the wide world! 
Daring the time that we were encamped near the source of the Limpopo, we could from the waggons, frequently perceive 
wild Buffaloes grazing quietly, and unsuspicious of danger, among verdant valleys within half a mile of our position. Through 
their wandering and restless disposition, these favourite haunts are traversed by numerous well-worn foot-paths, along which 
they saunter morning and evening. retiring during the sultry period of the day, to ruminate in the mountain shade on the 
brink of some tranquil stream, 
— in which the willows dip 
Their pendant boughs, stooping as if to drink. 
Herein they lave their bare hides at will, and swimming stoutly, cross the broadest rivers without any hesitation. A noble bull, 
weighing not less than a ton and a half, was ‘shot whilst in the act of thus navigating the dark silent channel of the 
placid Limpopo, across which the Hottentots, stripped to their skins, had twice waded and swum in pursuit of him. Under 
a volley of well-directed balls, the huge carease turning suddenly on its side, floated away with the blood-stained current, 
against which the gallant beast, with all its remaining strength, had been struggling to gain the opposite shore. 
Riding one morning before it was well light, up a narrow defile flanked by steep banks, in order to attain the 
summit of an eminence, a strong bovine taint suddenly assailed my wose, and I found myself most unexpectedly confronted 
with the van of a vast troop ascending from the opposite side—their malevolent grey eyes scowling beneath a threatening 
brow: Unable to turn, the formidable brutes must inevitably have charged aver me, had not my horse dexterously contrived, 
under a severe application of the rowels, to scramble up the bank, from the top of which I fired both barrels into the 
leader, a ponderous bull, whose venerable appearance stamped him father of the herd. Falling on his knees, the grey 
patriarch was instantly trampled under foot of his reckless followers, as they dashed, bellowing, down the deelivity which 
I had so recently occupied —moving in close squadron with the fury, of a passing whirlwind, and making the woods 
re-echo to the clatter of their wild hoofs. 
On the afternoon of the same day, another noble troop was observed filing sluggishly through the seraggzy forest 
which flanked our bivouac, led by a stately bull, whose slow and fumereal pace called to mind the creeping progress of 
some enormous reptile. Although the sight is clouded by an overhanging brow, the sense of smelling in this species is 
exquisite, Seizing our weapons, we glided against the wind therefore, and creeping on all fours to a strong position in 
advance of the course that they were taking, squatted in close ambush behind the leafy screen. The tramp of their heavy 
feet drew nearer and more near, until the branches began to move and crackle, and their odour became quite overpowering. 
One passed, and then another—flapping lazily their long pendulous ears, which were slit and torn by the brambles — and 
carrying their short noses so horizontally that the horns were thrown back along the swarthy shoulders. Twice was the 
fatal aim taken, and twice were the rifles lowered from the shoulder—both had proved to be cows, and their sex befriended 
them. Next with lordly tread came on the great master bull. The hoary villain fanecying that he had heard a sound to 
which he was unaccustomed, was casting many suspicious glances around—stooping occasionally, and narrowly scrutinizing 
every object. There was a momentary pause— another second, and two balls whizzing through the air, had entered his 
brawny shoulder close behind the elbow, bringing him heavily upon his knees, whilst a crimson tide gushed from his 
distended nostrils:—Daar lay de (ull, chuckled Andries from his concealment; and the herd, cocking their long tails and 
snuffing at the prostrate figure of their humbled chief, snorted, tossed their wild heads aloft, threw up their mighty heels 
with a flourish that cast the dirt some dozen feet high—and then dashed headlong through the trees, with a terrifie crash, 
goring, overturning, and trampling under foot every object. that opposed their progress ! 
dat contibus mgens 
Silva locum, et mazno cedunt yirgulta fragore.” 
The finest bull Buffalo slain by our little party, measured at the shoulder seventeen and a half hands—his wide-spreading 
heams being split and completely worn away at the point from constantly raking and tearing up the ground. Whilst 
in pursuit of a herd of Roan Antelopes, I had remarked his dark form stationed, statue-like, in a narrow passage at the 
water's edge, these rugged horns overshadowing his small grey sinister eyes, and imparting to his countenance the most cunning, 
gloomy, and vindictive expression. An ill-timed shot fired by one of the Hottentots, putting every ereature to flight, he thun- 
dered past me on his retreat to the hills; and my first barrel fortunately fracturing his hind leg as he was in the act of top- 
ping an eminence, I jumped upon my horse, and closed with him immediately. Plunging, roaring, and rendered desperately 
furious, no less by the smarting of his wounds than hy the triumphal shouts of savage merriment that his maimed condition 
elicited from various mouths—groaning as he pawed up the earth—the bleeding and reeling quarry ran wildly round upon 
three legs, as thongh in pursuit of his own tail. The shattered bones of the fourth, which protruded through the skin, ground 
together as it dangled; and whilst his blood shot eye-balls, starting from their sockets, flashed with portentous fury, the white 
