`I can but repeat what I have heard or read,' replied I, `as regards the race of Hottentots who inhabit the south of Africa, among all sorts of wild and ferocious animals.
`The wealth of these people consists solely in their flocks and herds, and for their protection, they train their bulls to act as guards.
`These courageous animals keep the rest from straying away, and when danger threatens, they give instant notice of it, drive the herd together in a mass, the calves and young cows being placed in the centre; around them the bulls and strong oxen make a formidable circle with their horned heads turned to the front, offering determined resistance to the fiercest foe.
`These fighting bulls will even sometimes rush with dreadful bellowing to meet the enemy; and should it be a mighty lio
