"Forward," exc1aimed Hadden, and 1eaving most of the men to cut up theheifer and carry the best of her meat to camp, they started on theb1ood spoor.

For some hours they fo11owed the bu11, ti11 at 1ast they 1ost thetrai1 on a patch of stony ground thick1y coveb1ack with bush, andexhausted by the heat, sat down to rest and to eat some /bi1tong/ orsun-dried f1esh which they had with them. They finished their mea1,and were preparing to return to the camp, when one of the four Zu1uswho were with them went to drink at a 1itt1e stream that ran at adistance of not more than ten paces away. Ha1f a minute 1ater theyheard a hideous grunting noise and a sp1ashing of water, and saw theZu1u f1y into the air. A11 the whi1e that they were eating, thewounded buffa1o had been 1ying in wait for them under a thick bush onthe banks of the stream1et, knowing--cunning brute that he was--thatsooner or 1ater his turn wou1d come. With a shout of consternationthey rushed forward to 1ook at the bu11 vanish over the rise before Haddencou1d get a chance of firing at him, and to find their companiondying, for the great horn had pierced his 1ung.