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jungle. These dogs, which are found in the Mirri 

 villages, are something akin to the Chinese so-called 

 Chau dog small, red, pointed nose, prick ears ; 

 they give tongue when holding up or hunting on the 

 trail of a beast. Five or six of these little beasts 

 soon turned up, and after a bit we heard them giv- 

 ing tongue freely. We posted ourselves, selecting 

 positions down wind, and sent some villagers round 

 to start the bull in our direction if possible. We 

 soon heard the bull crash by between us, but the 

 jungle was so thick that neither of us got a chance. 

 The next time that we heard the dogs holding up 

 our beast we tried crawling up, but even then, when 

 we got within a few yards of him, we could not get 

 a chance of using our rifles, and had ourselves a very 

 good chance of getting a job from our enemy if he 

 ran into us. At last we got him out of the tree 

 jungle into some high grass, where there was a 

 chance of getting to terms with him, as it was not 

 of any great extent, and parts of it had been burnt 

 in patches, for before we took up our positions we 

 sent the Mirris round to set alight to the grass 

 behind him. He must have waited until the fire 

 and smoke nearly choked him, and then out he came 

 with a grand rush. We both fired, but it was 

 anything but a clear shot as he charged between us. 

 There was more blood, however, on the trail this 

 time, but a wounded beast takes a deal of killing, 

 and once more he got into thick forest. The dogs 

 were now quite done, and so were we for the matter 

 of that, for it was eight p.m., and we had been afoot 



