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his head must have been at an angle as the 
bullet struck him. For instead of penetrating 
the skull it had glanced off the bone, and I 
found it under the scalp on his forehead. The 
second bullet hit him low down in the neck as he 
turned. A curious fact about these two heads 
was that both horns on the near side were mal- 
formed in almost identically the same way, prob- 
ably from an injury when the horn was growing. 
I now hurried back to Hunter to help him 
with the first head, whilst Elia and Shanghai 
did the honours for the second one. I found my 
guide, philosopher, and friend had more than 
three parts finished his gory task, but wanted 
help to sever the head from the neck. At last we 
got the neck and skull separated, and started 
back for camp, where we found the boys with 
the head they had brought in. The tongues 
and strips of meat from the haunches we hung 
up in the smoke of the fire in order to dry them ; 
the limbs of the trees over the fire were festooned 
with meat which would take a couple of days 
and nights to dry sufficiently to bear packing. 
The boys ate their porcupine, cooking it whole 
over the fire, first having burnt off the quills in 
the flames. It does not look a very appetizing 
morsel, and after tasting a bit of the hind 
quarter I decided that I much preferred moose, 
which is, I think, the finest meat I have ever 
eaten. 
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