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trackers are good or not, it is quite useless for you to interfere 

 with them unless you have sufficient experience to do the 

 tracking yourself and let the men follow behind. You must take 

 it for granted they are doing their best ; the fact of their being on 

 a bison's trail will ensure their running no undue risk from care- 

 lessness, and if you interfere you only confuse and put them 

 out : therefore take Sanderson's advice, unless they wish you to 

 keep close to them, which they probably will not do, ride 

 your pony comfortably about one hundred yards in rear, till 

 they signal you up. You should then be either pretty close to 

 or within sight of your game. It is assumed that you have two 

 rifles, an 8-bore and a 12-bore, with round bullets ; conical 

 bullets are not to be relied on in jungle. Try to approach 

 j within sixty yards, and get your first shot in with the 8-bore. 

 1 Should the bull bolt, run after him at once, whether you 

 have fired or not. Very likely he will pull up after going a 

 i short distance and give you a chance. Aim well forward ; if 

 j you break his shoulder you are more likely to get him than if 

 \\ you take him too far back ; keep him in sight as long as you 

 I can ; if he goes out of sight sit down and smoke a pipe or 

 [have breakfast. In any case give him half an hour, then 

 follow up with your trackers, carrying the 12-bore yourself 

 and your gun-carrier the 8-bore. If the track lead into thick 

 stuff, send a man up the first tree you come to, and if he can- 

 not see the animal, work carefully on to the next tree in the 

 direction the track leads, though not necessarily on it. Work 

 clean through the thick patch in this way from tree to tree, 

 till you get to the far side ; never mind the trail inside. Should 

 you get through without seeing the beast, try to pick up the 

 trail outside, and if you fail in this go back the way you came 

 to where you lost the track, and try working through it from tree 

 " tree in another direction. If your lines have formed a not 

 > broad angle at the point you left the trail, and you cannot 

 irack him outside, the bull should be within the trians;le, and 

 if there are no more trees you must follow the trail. Should the 

 jungle happen to be ' Kharwee,' the stems of which are about 



