half o't above the ridge."

Dick elevated his head as directed, and the scene that

met his view was indeed well calculated to send an

electric shock to the heart of an ardent sportsman.

The vast plain beyond was absolutely blackened with

countless herds of buffaloes, which were browsing on

the rich grass. They were still so far distant that their

bellowing, and the trampling of their myriad hoofs, only

reached the hunters like a faint murmur on the breeze.

In the immediate foreground, however, there was a