very near. Never were feet so swift as those of Umslopogaas. Now he

reached the bull as he laboured on. Umslopogaas placed his hands upon

the back of the bull and leaped; he was on him, he sat him as you

white men sit a horse. Then he lifted the spear in his hand, and drove

it down between the shoulders to the spine, and of a sudden the great

buffalo staggered, stopped, and fell dead.

Galazi came up. "Who now is the swiftest, Galazi?" cried Umslopogaas,

"I, or you, or your wolf host?"