BULLET AND SHOT 



the spot where the bull was standing at the shot, 

 when, from behind a clump of bamboos, the bull 

 came at him at speed. C. interposed a tree be- 

 tween himself and the bull, who cut a piece out 

 of the bark with his horn as he rushed by, and 

 then turned round and went at him again with the 

 same result. C. then thought that he would try 

 to reach a more distant tree, and ran to do so, 

 but, being tripped up by a fallen branch, log, or bam- 

 boo hidden in the grass, he fell prone, upon which 

 the bull came and did all that he could to horn 

 him, but succeeded only in ripping his garments 

 considerably, and at last, getting his horn round 

 C., tossed him, and then came and stood over him 

 again. C., a strong, athletic man, now did what 

 was very unwise, viz., he sat up and hit the bison 

 with his fists in the eyes, and kicked him on the 

 nose, until, for some unexplained reason, the bull 

 left him and went off. That the bull was but very 

 slightly wounded was evident from the fact that, 

 though C. followed him up for some miles, he 

 never saw him again. C.'s knuckles were de- 

 scribed to me, by a man who saw him soon after 

 the adventure, as being terribly skinned, and 

 he afterwards showed me a thick, plain gold ring, 

 which he was wearing at the time, battered out 

 of all shape. Now this bison did not act at all in 

 the way in which one would expect an animal of 

 his kind to behave. In the first place, although 

 not severely wounded, he remained where he was 

 standing when first fired at ; and in the second, he 

 displayed great pertinacity ; while the third, and 



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