A MOST SUCCESSFUL RIGHT AND LEFT 



fire at the largest when they winded us and made off, but 

 following at a run, I got a snap shot at the leading bull and 

 missed. 



I soon realized the mistake I had made in firing this 

 hasty shot, for the animals were now thoroughly alarmed, 

 and I knew it meant many hours of weary tracking before 

 we could come up with them again. However, we took up 

 the spoor over a grassy plateau, and at last, just as the sun 

 was setting behind the hills, we sighted them, quietly 

 browsing on the tender shoots of the bamboo in a valley 

 below us. 



They were about a hundred yards away, and I was con- 

 sidering how best to circumvent them, the breeze being very 

 shifty, when there was a sudden crash they had winded 

 us and were off again. I ran for all I was worth to head 

 them off, followed by my henchman Bapu, who was carrying 

 my rifle. 



We went tearing along down the steep incline and then 

 along the ridge, both greatly out of breath, when coming 

 to an opening in the forest, I suddenly sighted the two 

 bulls standing about fifty yards to my right. Stretching 

 out my right hand behind me, Bapu handed me the Express 

 rifle, which was fortunately loaded with solid bullets. 



I now fired at the big bull with the right barrel, aiming 

 for the point of the shoulder, and emptied the left at his 

 companion, when they both wheeled round and disappeared 

 into some dense covert ahead. I knew I had hit the first 

 bull in the right spot, but was uncertain about the second, 

 as his head and shoulders were partly hidden by a branch 

 when I fired. However, following up the first by its blood 

 tracks, we soon came upon him, and, to my delight, also 

 the second, both lying dead within a few yards of each other ! 



It took some time and trouble to cut off the heads of 

 these two monsters, and night had long set in before we 

 completed the operation, so collecting some wood, we lit a fire 

 and camped out for the night, our dinner consisting of bison 

 steak cut from along the dorsal ridge of one of the two bulls. 



Ghoramba, at the time I am writing of some twenty 

 years ago used to be a very favourite resort for bison, the 

 country being high and well wooded with extensive bamboo 

 jungles. 



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