or giving way to a frenzy of
rage, the maddened brutes turn and furiously charge their tormentors.
The air is rent with savage bellowings and the clashing of horns. The
dust flies in clouds from the rumbling earth as the frenzied creatures
tear round and round the inclosure. Two of the Kafirs, less agile or
less fortunate than their fellows, are flung high in the air, falling
with a lifeless thud among the spectators outside; then, crashing
through the fence in a body, the panic-stricken bullocks stream forth
into the open, scattering the crowd right and left before the fury of
their rush.

Then ensues a wild and stirring scene. Their great horns lowered, the
infuriated animals course madly through the village, each beset by a
crowd of armed savages whose dark, agile forms, avoiding the fierce
impetus of their charge, may be seen to spring alongside, plying the
deadly assegai. One turns suddenly and heads straight for its pursuers,
bellowing hideously. Like magic the crowd parts, there is a whizz of
assegais in the air, and the poor beast crashes earthward, bristling
with quivering assegai hafts, as a pin cushion with pins. Yelling,
whistling like fiends, in their uncontrollable excitement, the savages
dart in and out among the fleeing beasts, and the red firelight gleams
upon assegai points and rolling eyeballs, and the air rings with the
frenzied bellowing of the pursued, and the wild shouts of the pursuers.

But it cannot last long. Soon the mad fury of the chase gives way to
the nauseous accompaniments of a slaughter house on a large scale. In
an incredibly short space of time, each of the bullocks is reduced to a
disjointed heap of flesh and bones. Men, staggering beneath huge slabs
of quivering meat, make their way to the fires, leaving the dogs to
snarl and quarrel over an abundant repast of steaming offal.

The great joints frizzle and sputter over the red coals. Squatted
around, a hungry gleam in their eyes, the Kafirs impatiently watch each
roasting morsel. Then, hardly waiting until it is warmed through, they
drag the meat from the fire. Assegais are plied, and soon the huge
joints are reduced to strips of half-raw flesh, and the champing of
hundreds of pairs of jaws around each red blaze takes the place of the
deep bass hum of conversation, as the savages throw all their energies
into the assimilation of their unwonted meal. It is like a cannibal
feast--the smoky flare of the great fires--the