BUFFALO PURSUED BY LIONS. 177 of two of them, at night, and had seen the marks where the buffalo had turned, and evidently charged his tormentors ; after a time, two out of these three lions had discontinued the hunt, but the third had held on a long time before also giving up.

Besides these buffaloes, they discovered in the morning that a giraffe had drunk at the water, but they had seen nothing of it.