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side above us, at a distance of forty to fifty paces, which, 

 as we supposed, he took to be the bear, and at which he 

 discharged his gun. At the same moment, and in the 

 direction he had fired, Mr. Lloyd's dog appeared ; on which 

 he said : * Elg ! surely I have not shot my dog !' And 

 afterwards, when he saw the dog unhurt, and as he knew 

 to a certainty that the dog and Svensson were together, he 

 exclaimed : ' I fear I have shot Svensson !' On this we 

 hastened up the hill, and found Svensson lying shot and 

 dead. This was within the Ring, and one hundred 

 and forty- five paces from the place where he had been 

 ordered to remain. Svensson had stood in a stooping 

 osture, engaged in lighting a fire, as was apparent by the 

 s on the ground. When Mr. Lloyd fired the shot, 

 Svensson was about fifty paces to the left of us, instead 

 of one hundred paces to the right, as he would have been 

 had he remained at the H6-Hassja, where we had parted 

 from him a quarter of an hour before, and where we to a 

 certainty believed him still to be. The Ring was in the 

 wildest part of the forest, and six to seven miles from the 

 nearest habitation, No mere mortal could therefore by 

 possibility have imagined, or could have had a presentiment, 

 that any human being, excepting ourselves, could have been 

 found in so remote a place." 



Subsequent to the above depositions being read, both 

 men were interrogated by the Court. Elg did not vary in 

 any material degree in his evidence ; but he went into more 

 details as to our proceedings whilst in the Ring, &c. Neither 

 did Atter vary in his testimony, excepting as to the distance 

 Svensson was from me when the fatal shot was fired ; 



