Now, these buffalo are in a trap.

This swamp is like a dish with one mouth.

They cannot get out at the sides of the dish, and the mouth by which they came in is very narrow.

If we station ourselves at either side of it we can kill many of them." By this time I was thoroughly awake and had arisen from my blankets.
Throwing a kaross over my shoulders, I left the hut, made of boughs, in which I was sleeping and walked a few paces to the crest of a rocky ridge, whence I could see the dry vlei below.

Here the mists of dawn still clung, but from it rose sounds of grunts, bellows and tramplings which I, an old hunter, could not mistake.