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make it bite the dust, for it cannot be far away Let us follow it"

He glared round him, whereon his obsequious people, or one of them,

echoed: "Yes, by all means let us follow it, 'Eater-up-of-Elephants'

Macumazahn, the clever white man, will show us how, for where is the

buffalo that he fears!"

Of course, after this there was nothing else to be done, so, having

summoned the scratched Scoho seemed to have no heart in the

business, we started on the spoor of the herd, which was as easy to

track as a wagon road

"Never mind, Baas," said Scowl, "they are two hours' march off by now"

"I hope so," I answered; but, as it happened, luck was against me, for

before we had covered half a mile some over-zealous fellow struck a

blood spoor

I marched on that spoor for twenty minutes or so, till we came to a

patch of bush that sloped doards to a river-bed Right to this river

I followed it, till I reached the edge of a big pool that was still full

of water, although the river itself had gone dry Here I stood looking

at the spoor and consulting with Saduko as to whether the beast could

have swue had

become confused and uncertain Suddenly our doubts were ended, since

out of a patch of dense bush which we had passed--for it had played the

co back on its own spoor--appeared the buffalo, a

huge bull, that halted on three legs, hs As to its identity there was no doubt, since on, or rather fro the remains of

Umbezi's moocha