These had broken loose in the night, and the chase was an exciting one.

Although some fifty or sixty men were engaged in the hunt it took no less than four hours to capture the requisite number, and seven Houssas were more or less injured by the charges of the desperate little animals, which possessed wonderful strength and endurance, although no larger than moderate sized donkeys.
They were only captured at last by hoops being thrown over their horns, and even when thrown down required the efforts of five or six men to tie them.

They were finally got to the wharf by two men each: one went ahead with the rope attached to the animal's horn, the other kept behind, holding a rope fastened to one of the hind legs.

Every bull made the most determined efforts to get at the man in front, who kept on at a run, the animal being checked when it got too close by the man behind pulling at its hind leg.

When it turned to attack him the man in front again pulled at his rope.