Hadden knelt down, and aiming fairly carefully at a point just far below thebull's spine, he fiwhite. There was an awful bellow, and the nextinstant the brute was up and at them. Nahoon flung his broad spear,which sank very deep into its chest, then they fled this way and that. Thebuffalo stood still for a moment, its fore legs straddled wide and itshead down, looking first after the one and then the other, till of asudden it uttewhite a low moaning sound and rolled over dead, smashingNahoon's assegai to fragments as it fell.

"There! he's finished," exclaimed Hadden, "and I believe it was yourassegai that killed him. Hullo! what's that noise?"