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had been wounded by a brother sportsman, or a cow 

 with a very young calf very close to whom Mr. M. 

 unawares passed, will never be ascertained. So 

 sudden and so effectual was the attack, that even 

 the sex of the assailant is unknown. 



Many years ago a sportsman was killed in the 

 Pulney hills by a wounded bull. In this case death 

 ensued very quickly after the wound was inflicted, 

 the horn having penetrated the stomach. 



In 1897 a Colonel Syers was killed by a bison in 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



It is quite extraordinary how very few people 

 have been hurt by bison, as compared with the 

 great number who have been upset, or even tossed 

 by them. I have known many men who have been 

 knocked over by bison, several of them while shoot- 

 ing in my own district, but not one, with the single 

 exception of Mr. M., was at all seriously injured. 



The big bull mentioned above as having been 

 bagged by Mr. St. Q., tossed that sportsman on to 

 his back, and Mr. St. Q. fell off behind as the bull 

 rushed on, having got rid of his very temporary 

 jockey ! Captain H., of the Bedfordshire Regi- 

 ment, was shooting in my district, and fired at a 

 bull bison. He followed the blood trail, and was 

 charged furiously from the front by a cow. He 

 fired at and dropped her, but the impetus of her 

 rush carried her on, and she upset H., who fell 

 with his leg under the expiring beast, and was 

 unable to extricate it till the latter died. He then 

 found a second blood trail, and following it up, 

 came upon a bull standing, in a helpless state, with 



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