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another bush : several spears were now thrown at him, but 

 without effect. 



We followed and soon roused him again ; he now made 

 a start for his old station on the east side of the valley ; he 

 seemed very much fagged on account of the heat and a want 

 of water, and it became difficult to arouse him ; several spears 

 flew after him, but they fell short. All this time, although 

 pretty close, I could not get a shot at him, sometimes on ac- 

 count of my people, and at others not wishing to throw a shot 

 away, not knowing how soon I might require it in self-de- 

 fence. Close to his heels, we followed him across the valley. 

 He now took shelter in a bush, on the side of a hill, where he 

 remained growling for some time. He saw that he was in 

 danger, so he made a start from that bush to another, just 

 at my feet, and lay for at least ten -minutes, not ten yards 

 from where I was with one of my sons, who was making an 

 opening into the bush, so that at length I got a clear sight 

 of him ; but before we could finish our task, he made a spring 

 with the intention to clear the heads of three men who were to 

 my right, at about ten fathoms distance, but they received and 

 put three pikes and a hogspear into him : the former entered 

 his belly, the latter his right shoulder ; this he took with 

 him but the pike staves all broke. 



This shock to his frame brought him down on one of the 

 men, on whom he left the marks of three of his paws, but he 

 got into a bush before I could turn round to have a rap at 

 him. This was his last move. It was now just twelve at 

 noon. We gathered up our broken pike staves, and bound 

 up the wounds of our man, and sent him off to the mills, to 

 await our arrival ; but determined not to give up our prize, 

 we remained quiet for about an hour, to rest ourselves. 

 During this time he growled once, but faintly ; he was at 

 that time drawing the hogspear out of his right shoulder. 

 This gave him much pain, and made him growl. We now 

 saw the bush shake very much, so again we began opera- 



