Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . p tohim, and never can the scene which followed be erased from my his ponderous head round, his eye caught our figures. I firedthe second barrel of my rifle behind his horns, but it did not reach thebrain. His wounds gave him some difificulty in getting up, which afford-ed Moneypenny and myself just time to ensconce ourselves behind theslender shrubs that grew round the spot,
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . p tohim, and never can the scene which followed be erased from my his ponderous head round, his eye caught our figures. I firedthe second barrel of my rifle behind his horns, but it did not reach thebrain. His wounds gave him some difificulty in getting up, which afford-ed Moneypenny and myself just time to ensconce ourselves behind theslender shrubs that grew round the spot, while Frolic unwisely took tohis heels. The buffalo saw him, and uttering a continued unearthly noisebetween a grunt and a bellow, advanced at a pace at which these unwieldycreatures are rarely seen to run, unless stirred by revenge. Crashing through the low bushes as if they were stubble, he passedme, but charged quite over Moneypennys lurking-place, who aimed athim as he came on, and lodged the ball in the rocky mass of horn abovehis head; the buffalo was so near at the time of his firing that his hornstruck the barrel of the gun the next instant; but whether the noise and. C H oo > w G > o. (249) 250 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. smoke confused the animal, or he was partially stunned by the bullet, hemissed my friend, and continued in pursuit of Frolic. The Hottentot dodged the terrible brute round the bushes, butthrough these slight obstacles it dashed with ease and gained groundrapidly. Speechless we watched the chase, and in the awful moment,regardless of concealment, stood up and saw the buffalo overtake hisvictim and knock him down. At this crisis my friend fired his secondbarrel at the beast, which gave Frolic one or two blows with his fore-feet,and pushing his nose under, endeavored to toss him; but the Hottentot,aware of this, with much presence of mind lay perfectly still. Directlyafter the buffalo stumbled and fell dead, and Frolic got on his legs andlimped toward
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