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These Two I Now Went With My Only Rifle, Leaving The Servants And
Savages Behind.
They were out in the open grass feeding
composedly, so that I stole up to within forty yards of them, and
then, in a small naked patch of ground, I waited my opportunity,
and put a ball behind the shoulder of the larger one.
At the
sound of the gun, in an instant both bulls charged, but they
pulled up in the same naked ground as myself, sniffing and
tossing their horns, while looking out for their antagonist, who,
as quick as themselves, had thrown himself flat on the ground.
There we were, like three fools, for twenty minutes or so; one of
the buffaloes bleeding at the mouth and with a broken hind-leg,
for the bullet had traversed his body, and the other turning
round and round looking out for me, while I was anxiously
watching him, and by degrees loading my gun. When ready, I tried
a shot at the sound one, but the cap snapped and nearly betrayed
me, for they both stared at the spot where I lay - the sound one
sniffing the air and tossing his horns, but the other bleeding
considerably. Some minutes more passed in this manner, when they
allowed me to breathe freer by walking away. I followed, of
course, but could not get a good chance; so, as the night set in,
I let them alone for the time being, to get out the following
morning.
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