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and answered it, and then took up the seladang 

 tracks, knowing Nagh would come up with me, for 

 they could trail me as fast as I was going. It was 

 well into the forenoon, however, before they caught 

 up ; they had been delayed by two of the carriers 

 having dysentery, which necessitated stopping, re- 

 packing and final camping as night set in; they 

 had shouted they said, but had probably been shut 

 in between hills and did not know enough to get 

 up on high ground. 



It was not an hour after Nagh joined me on the 

 wounded seladang tracks that, as I wormed my 

 way through the jungle on the hillside, I suddenly 

 discovered the beast standing stern on not more 

 than sixty feet ahead of me. Working from tree 

 to tree I had come finally almost ahead of him and 

 little over thirty feet away, when on a sudden he 

 seemed aware of my presence and direction and 

 made a rush at me. My bullet struck just at the 

 top of his high frontal bone, between the horns, 

 tearing the skull without reaching the brain; but 

 he swung off, giving me a near side-head shot ; and 

 this time I reached the brain. He was a good, 

 though not a big, specimen, measuring five feet ten 

 and one-half inches shoulder height. It had taken 

 seven bullets to bring him down ; one had pierced 

 the lungs and two the shoulder blade, one went 



through the shoulder muscles, and one ranged 

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