ed would
then be down upon him. Struggling was useless, for I had no beads to
pay my way with, and my cows were now all finished; so I took the matter
quietly, and went out foraging with the rifle.

18th and 19th.--Antelopes were numerous, but so wild I could not get
near them. On bending round homewards, however, three buffaloes, feeding
in the distance, on the top of a roll of high ground beyond where we
stood, were observed by the natives, who had flocked out in the hopes of
getting flesh. To stalk them, I went up wind to near where I expected to
find them; then bidding the natives lie down, I stole along through the
grass until at last I saw three pairs of horns glistening quite close
in front of me. Anxious lest they should take sudden fright, I gently
raised myself, wishing to fire, but I was quite puzzled; there was no
mistake about what they were; still, look from as high as I would, I
could not see their bodies. The thought never struck me they were lying
down in such open ground in the day-time; so, as I could not go closer
without driving them off, I took a shot with my single rifle at where I
judged the chest of the nearest one ought to be, and then discovered my
error. In an instant all three sprang on their legs and scampered off. I
began loading, but before I had half accomplished my object, those three
had mingled with the three previously seen grazing, and all six together
came charging straight at me. I really thought I should now catch a
toss, if I were not trampled to death; but suddenly, as they saw me
standing, whether from fear or what else I cannot say, they changed
their ferocious-looking design, swerved round, and galloped off as fast
as their legs could carry them. This was bad luck; but Grant made up for
it the next day by killing a very fine buck nsamma.

20th.--I went again after the herd of six buffaloes, as I thought one
was wounded, and after walking up a long sloping hill for three miles
towards the east, I found myself at once in view of the Nile on one
hand, and the long-heard-of Asua river on the other, backed by hills
even higher than the Jbl Kuku. The bed of the Asua seemed very large,
but, being far off, was not very distinct, nor did I care to go and see
it them; for at that moment, straight in front of me, five buffaloes,
five giraffes, two eland and sundry other antelopes, were too strong a
temptation.

The place looked like a park, and I began stalking in it, first at the
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