228 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



sent a ball from my other gun into the centre of his 

 forehead, followed up by another from a smaller rifle. 

 These were more than sufficient for bruin, who died 

 incontinently. In the afternoon I went to a small 

 village called Letchmapooram. Here there was a nice 

 banyan tree under which I pitched my tent. A little 

 way off there was an extensive range of rocks full 

 of caves. 



" Wednesday. I was out early this morning. At 

 daybreak two bears came past my tent, and made for 

 the hills. Hearing the preconcerted signal I mounted 

 ' Punch,' took the two-ouncer, and galloped after them. 

 I saw a bear climbing up the rocks after I had gone 

 some way through thorny jungle, so dismounted, and 

 hobbled up to the foot of the hill. Bruin was just 

 entering a den when I got a snap shot at him and 

 rolled him over dead with a single bullet. This was 

 a large male. In the evening I went to the small 

 hill, west of the conical one. I was climbing up the 

 rocks (the markers had not even been posted), when 

 I saw two bears emerge from a den. I followed them 

 up and soon came upon them, almost within five paces, 

 and gave the larger the contents of ' Wapping Poll/ 

 which smashed his shoulder. Down he rolled and I 

 put another ball into him, after which the coolies 

 and dogs finished him. The other bear received a 

 two-ounce ball as he rushed past me. I then knocked 

 him over with another shot as I thought dead. 

 Then I descended the hill; but the second brute 

 managed to crawl into a den, and I lost him. My 

 bull-terrier behaved very pluckily to-day, rushing at 

 this bear and pinning him by the throat, but he was 

 knocked off at once, and had a very narrow escape. 



