Ferocious Wild Ox and Antelope
Suddenly a burst of rumbles came from far away, which scared us a lot. Both of us knew it was a wild ox. Wild oxen were fierce animals. It was said that a researcher once came across an ox in the wild field. Fortunately he escaped its ferocious attacks, but half of the big trunk of the tree behind him was knocked out. At that moment my accompanier stopped, wanting to hide behind me. I stopped, too. I held my breath, eyes closely staring at the unusual jumbo. When the wild ox finally passed us, we both laughed wildly to each other. We dropped down our baggage and rested a little. Then we started again. After climbing down a glacis, we were in front of a series of sidehill. While walking on the small paths of cliffs, we suddenly encountered a strange animal at the turning about 4 metres in front of us. It was smaller than a horse, with two long and pointed horns on its head. I was once told that such animal could easily penetrate a person ' s belly if he was not careful enough. I was also told that unless it felt real threat, it would not attack humans actively. At that time there was a deep channel on our left, cliff on our right, so we had no choice but to stand still, right in the place where we had been. We held tightly the knives, waiting our fate. The animal did not move, too, with eyes also staring at us. Five minutes passed until it finally turned and left. It was not until then did we find that our palms had already been wet with sweat.
We reckoned that if we went in this direction a little further, we would probably trespass into that animal ' s territory. Thus we turned to another direction. (There was another legend which said that when a person met such animals, he or she should touch the ground with both hands, pretending to be a four-limb animal eating grass. Thus the animal would not attack the person