. Five years' hunting adventures in South Africa: being an account of sport with the lion, elephant .... him. Marching again at sunrise, and I and Ruyter rode ahead to seekreitbuck. I detected one of these squatting beside the river to shunobservation, and I shot him dead on the spot. He proved to be an oldbuck, but, both of his horns being broken in fighting, I did not keepthe head. A little after this, two packs of wild dogs kept trotting andcantering slowly along before us, one on either side of the river ; we hadstarted them from two pallahs, which they had caught and were con-suming. More
. Five years' hunting adventures in South Africa: being an account of sport with the lion, elephant .... him. Marching again at sunrise, and I and Ruyter rode ahead to seekreitbuck. I detected one of these squatting beside the river to shunobservation, and I shot him dead on the spot. He proved to be an oldbuck, but, both of his horns being broken in fighting, I did not keepthe head. A little after this, two packs of wild dogs kept trotting andcantering slowly along before us, one on either side of the river ; we hadstarted them from two pallahs, which they had caught and were con-suming. More reitbuck were seen, and presently an old buck, carryingunusually fine horns, started up before us in company with four taking up a position in a hollow in the vley, and sending Ruyter todrive them towards me, I had the satisfaction to succeed in bowlingover this fine old buck, which proved to be a princely specimen. I shothim running, and broke his back. The waggons being opposite to us, we crossed the river, and depositedthe head on my cardell; and having proceeded a short distance farther. o I—1 & O CO O m fO $ a:< U A MONSTEB CROCODILE. 333 up, we discovered the fresh spoor of an immense herd of elephants,consisting mostly of old bulls. I drew up my waggons on a peninsularwell-wooded spot, and proceeded to take up the spoor. These elephantshad at first fed for many hours among thorns in the vicinity of theriver, and then marched in a long string right away out of the following the spoor for a great many miles I became annoyed,and gave it up. On the 31st, as I was riding along the rivers bank, about two milesbelow the spot where some days before I had fired at a large crocodile,I came upon a similar reptile lying asleep on the opposite side, which Ishot dead on the spot, putting the ball through the spine close into theback of the head. On receiving the ball, he only made a slight con-vulsive movement, and then remained still and motionless as if a
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