keenly for more game. Ammonios was on the left among
the buihes, and fome large, beautiful, tall fpreading-trees,
clofe on the banks o f the river Bedowi, which ftands there
in pools. Whether the buffalo found Ammonios, or Ammonios
the buffalo, is what we could never get him to explain
to. us ; but he had wounded the beaft flightly in the
buttock, which, in return, had gored his horfe, and thrown
both him and it to the ground. Luckily, however, his
cloak had fallen off, which thte buffalo tore in pieces, and
employed himfelf for a minute with that and with the
horfe, but then left them, and followed the man as foon ¡ ¡ t
he faw him rife and run. Ammonios got behind one large
tree, and from that to another fo il larger. The buffalo
turned very aukwardly, but kept elofe in purfuit; and.there
was no doubt he would have w orn our friend but, who w as
not ufed to fuch quick motion. Ayto Engedan, who was '
near him, and might have affifled him, was laughing, ready
to die at the droll figure a man o f Ammonios’s grave carriage
made, running and ikipping about naked, with x
fwiftnefs he had never practifed all his life before ; and Engedan
continued calling to Confu to partake o f the diver-
fion.
The moment I heard his repeated cries, I gailoped out
o f the buihes to the place where he was, and could not
help laughing at the ridiculous figure o f our friend, very-
attentive to the beaft’s motions, which.feemed to dodge with
great addrefs, and keep to his adveriary with the utmofi
obftinacy. As foon as Engedan faw me, he cried, “ Yagoubef
fo r the love o f Chrift ! for the love o f the bleffed Virgin!
don’t interfere till Confu comes up.” Confu immediately-
arrived, and laughed more than Engedan, but did not off
e r
fer to in terfere; on the contrary, he clapped his hands,
and cried, “ Well done, Ammonios,” fwearing he never faw
fo equal a match in his life. The unfortunate Ammonios
had been driven from tree to tree, till he had got behind
one within a few yards o f the w a te r ; but the bruih-
wood upon the banks, and his attention to- the buffalo,,
hindered him from feeing how for it was below him. Nothing
could be more ridiculous than to fee him holding
the tree with both his hands, peeping firft one way, and
then another, to fee by which the beaft would turn. And
well he might be on his guard ; for the animal was abfo-
Iutely mad, tolling up tSe ground with his feet both before
and behind. “ Sir, faid I, to Ayto Confu, this w ill be
but an u g ly jo k e to-riight, i f we bring home that man’s
corpfe, killed in the very midft o f us, while we were
looking on.” Saying this, I parted at a canter behind the
trees, crying to Ammonios to throw himfelf into the
water, when I fhould ftrike the beaft; and feeing the
buffalo’s head turned from me, at fu ll fpeed I rail the
fpear into the lower part o f his belly, through his whole
inteftines, till it came out above a foot on the other fide,,
and there I left it, with a view to hinder the buffalo from
turning. It was a fpear which, though fm a l l in the head,
had a ftrong,'tough, feafonedihaft,which did not break b y
ftrikrng it againft the trees and buihes, and it pained and-
impeded the animal’s motions, till Ammonios' quitting the
tree, dafhed through the buihes with fome. difficulty, and
threw himfe lf into the river. But here a danger occurred
th a t lh a d not forefeen. The pool was v e ry 'd e ep , and
Ammonios could not fw iin ; fo that though he efcaped
from the buffalo, he would infallibly have been drowned,
i had