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relief and satisfaction. Pelting the body well 

 with clods of earth and stones, to make sure she 

 was dead, we walked up to inspect our prize, and 

 were surprised to find the vitality she had ex- 

 hibited. We had fired twelve shots at her, and 

 out of these ten were hits, as shown in the 

 diagram. The shot marked 'A' was my first 



shot at her as she sprang up the bank, and had 

 just missed breaking the vertebrae of the spine. 

 ' B ' and ' C ' were Davidson's two shots, and had 

 broken her off hind leg above and below the hock. 

 ' E ' was full in the chest. The other shots we 

 could not individually account for; but one of 

 the three between the head and the shoulder 

 must have been the fatal one. It certainly seemed 

 extraordinary that an animal with two legs broken, 

 and wounded near such vital spots besides, could 



