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where he had fallen the preceding evening ; or rather, we 

 discovered his head, tail, and feet, his companions having 

 wholly devoured the rest of him. 



The other beast, at which I myself fired, we also found 

 near to the lake, under a willow-bush where he had passed 

 the night ; but he ran off at our approach. There was 

 not only a large quantity of blood in his bed, but also 

 something, that, as it appeared to us, had exuded from his 

 intestines. I tracked him the whole day, and viewed him 

 several times when crossing openings in the forest ; but on 

 these occasions he was always out of shot range. Every- 

 where more or less blood was to be seen in his Spar, 

 especially in those places where he had made temporary 

 halts. But all my efforts to come up with him that day 

 were unavailing ; and they were equally so on the following, 

 which was the less surprising, as the snow was so deep as 

 to take me at least up to the knees, and my progress was 

 consequently very slow. 



" On the third day I took two men and two large dogs 

 with me, and had no difficulty in again rousing the wolf; 

 for, as on previous occasions, he had passed the night very 

 near to where he was left on the preceding evening : and 

 here also there was much blood. But the dogs were of no 

 avail ; for as soon as they scented the beast, they were 

 frightened, and came to heel, and would not leave us for 

 the remainder of the day. We ourselves, nevertheless, 

 persevered the whole of the forenoon ; but finding at length 

 that the wolf, instead of becoming weaker and weaker, as 

 after so great a loss of blood one would have expected, 

 began now to leap with facility over objects that he had 

 previously the greatest difficulty in surmounting, we con- 



