ABSTRACT

[46/1] Early the next day we left our dry quarters and continued our march in pouring rain. We started to climb a very lofty and rock-strewn mountain entailing great exertion. We had proceeded about two leagues when we came on a large herd of wild Buffaloes which had established themselves across the road, so that we had to fire on them, but so as not to hit and thereby irritate any of them, as this would have been most dangerous and quite useless, as all we sought to do was to scare them away and clear the road [46/2]. They were frightened off by the reports of the muskets and the whistling of the balls.