Now, what was to be done with this huge carcass?
No one could be induced to leave it.

A cow was ordered as a bribe on reaching camp; but no, the buffalo was bigger than a cow, and must be quartered on the spot; so, to gain our object, we went ahead and left the rear men to follow, thus saving a cow in rations, for we required to slaughter one every day.
By dint of hard perseverance we accomplished ten miles over the same downs of tall grass with occasional swamps.

We saw a herd of hartebeest, and reached at night a place within easy run of Koki in Gani.
The weather had now become fine.

At length we reached the habitations of men--a collection of conical huts on the ridge of a small chain of granitic hills lying north-west.

As we approached the southern extremity of this chain, knots of naked men, perched like monkeys on the granite blocks were anxiously awaiting our arrival.