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"Oh, beware, Inkoosi," cried Saduko in a frightened voice "It is the

buffalo with the cleft horn!"

I heard him; I saw All the scene in the hut of Zikali rose before

I liftedbeast, but knew that the bullet glanced froht on me--and tried to jump

aside

Al the remains

of Umbezi's moocha, scooped me up and hurled me off the river bank

backwards and sideways into the deep pool below As I departed thither I

saw Saduko spring forward and heard a shot fired that caused the bull to

collapse for aether, and there was no roo I went under, as the lighter dog always does in a

fight That buffalo see to me which a buffalo

could do under the circumstances It tried to horn h I ducked at each swoop Then it struck me with its

nose and drove ot hold of its

lip and twisted it Then it calmly knelt on me and sankit in the stomach After this I