Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-22

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the densest cover, and only venture out into
the open to feed at night. But Heatley,
though he himself had killed couple of
bulls, and the Boer farmer who was working
for him another, had preserved the herd
from outside molestation, and their habits
were doubtless much what they would have
been III regions where man is rare visitor.
The first day we were on Heatley's farm.
we saw the buffalo, to the number Of 20 or
~, grazing in the open, some hundreds of
yards from the papyrus swamp, and this
shortly after noon. For a mile from the
papyrus swamp the country was an absolute
ly flat plain. gradually rising into gentle
slope, and it was an iinpossbility to ap-
proach the buffalo across this plain save in
one way to be mentioned hereafter
Probably when the moon was full the buf-
falo came out to Craze by night. But while
we were on our hunt the moon was young,
and the buffalo evidently spent most OF the
night in the papyrus, and came out to Craze
by day. Sometimes they came out in the
early morning. sometimes in the late even
ing, but quite as often in the bright daylight
We saw herds come out to Craze at 10
o'clock in the morning, and again at in the
afternoon. They usually remained out sew
cral hours, first grazing and then lying down.
Flocks of the small white cow-heron usually
accompanied them, the birds stalking about
among them or perching on their backs and
occasionally the whereabouts of the herd in
the papyrus swamp could be determined by
seeing the flock of herons perched on the
papyrus tops.
An Animal That Is Given Wide Berth.
At night the buffalo sometimes came right
into the cultivated fields, and even into the
garden close by the Boer farmers house /;
and once at night he had shot bull. The
bullet went through the heart but the animal
ran to the papyrus swamp, and was found
next day dead just within the edge. Usually
the main herd, of bulls, cows. and calves,
kept together; but there were outlying bulls
found singly or in small parties.
Not only the natives. but the whites were
inclined to avoid the immediate neighbor-
hood of the papyrus swamp. for there had
been one or two narrow escapes from I'M
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er told us that man who was coming to see
him had been regularly followed by three
bulls, who pursued him for quite distance.
There is no doubt that under certain Cir
cumstances buffalo, in addition to showing
themselves exceeding dangerous opponents
when wounded by hunters, become truculent
and inclined to take the offensive them
selves. There are places in East Africa
where as regards at least certain herds this
seems to be the case; and in Uganda the
buffalo have caused such loss of life, and
such damage to the native plantations that
they are now ranked as vermin and not as
game, and their killing is encouraged iii
every possible way. The list of white hunt
ers that have been killed by buffalo Is very
long, and includes number Of men of note,
while accidents to natives are Of constant
occurrence.
The First Sight Of Buffalo.
The morning after making our camp we
started at dawn for the buffalo ground, Kef-
NIT and l, Cuninghame and Heatley, and
the Boer farmer with three big, powerful
dogs We walked near the edge of the
swamp Before we had gone two miles, buf-
falo were spied, we'll ahead feeding close to
the papyrus
The line OF the papyrus which marked the