THE MOST DANGEROUS BEAST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 7

THE MOST DANGEROUS BEAST.

Writing in the Wide AVorld Magazine on big game .shooting, Captain C. Lestoek Reid °savs of the African buffalo:—“ I am convinced that, without any exception whatever, the buffalo is the most dangerous of big game in the world. When you are hunting him he is often hunting von, and it is quite an open question which is hunting the better He will hide behind a bush—not a difficult feat, for bis size consists of bulk rather than height—and spring out on you like a nightmare player in a perilous game of peep-bo; lie will fetch a wide circle and come on yon from behind; he will tice you for hours on end; he is up to all manner of tricks when alive, and like Kipling’s Fuzzy Wuzzy, ‘ ’E’s generally shammin’ when he’s dead.' In the ultimate resort, when your last cartridge is expended or jammed, you can, it is said, save yourself from a buffalo by lying flat: lie cannot get at you with those enormous, inward-curving horns of Ids. and. like a horse, lie will not willingly tread on a human body. Every hunter knows that theory: the doubtful problem as to whether the buffalo knows it I have, thank heaven, never bad cause to solve by experiment.”