Hunting.

39 Haggi was taking aim, and I was just about to call out that lie should not fire while I was in the open, when his shot resounded. The buffaloes looked up, hesitating and uncertain whence came the danger.

The grass where I was was low, and I was plainly visible. The buffalo Haggi had fired at was wounded in the shoulder, too high to break the bone, and, foaming at the mouth, with his tail in the air, he rushed upon me. Immovably I aAvaited him till he Avas within twelve paces, when I planted a ball in his head about an inch below" his horns. He bent his hind legs, but recovered himself almost at once. I fired my second barrel, and he fell lifeless to the ground. While this was going on, the other five buffaloes had stopped a hundred steps away. We again approached them behind the ant-hills to within twenty-five paces. The buffaloes never removed their eyes from the spot where the shots had been fired, perhaps expecting their companion to join them. I fixed with Haggi on the animals we should aim at. Our position was excellent, we ran no kind of danger, and the buffaloes had partly recovered . from their alarm and were beginning to graze nearer and nearer.

We were only about eighteen to twenty steps from them when we fired, and saw two fall. Haggi hadonly a single-barrelled gun. I then fired my second barrel, but the buffalo hit remained standing, while the other tAvo made off at a gallop. T had already reloaded my gun and Avas about to fire again, wdicn I saAV my Aactim fall, his tongue hanging out of his mouth. The ball had penetrated the chest and broken the right shoulder-blade, lodging in the stomach. The bullet Avas flattened like a croAvnpiece. My gun was an English rifle, manufactured especially for elephant-hunting. I fired afterAvards with this weapon Avith conical bullets, but those T liad used on this occasion Avere of small dimensions.

The aim of this gun is very exact, and the perfection.