He was a horrible-looking monster, and from his size I hoped he was the villain that had committed the late depredations.

He was within three yards of me; and, although I stood upon the bank, his great round eyes gazed at me without a symptom of fear.

The next moment I put a two-ounce ball exactly between them, and killed him stone dead.

He gave a convulsive slap with his tail, which made the water foam, and, turning upon his back, he gradually sank, till at length I could only distinguish the long line of his white belly twenty feet below me.
Not having any apparatus for bringing him to the surface, I again took to the canoe, as a light breeze that had sprung up was gradually moving the carcass of the buffalo away.

This I slowly followed, until it at length rested in a wide belt of rushes which grew upon the shallows near the shore.