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road. Here, to my great surprise, I saw the bull 

 coming slowly back, half across and half towards 

 us, having evidently been turned by the road or 

 by people or carts passing along the latter, but 

 he was not seriously alarmed. 



I dared not fire at him at so great a range 

 I guessed him to be about 200 yards distant with 

 one of the 8-bores, of which I had two (a gun and 

 a rifle) out with me, so I fired at his chest with 

 the "500 express, the bullet used being an extra 

 large solid one. At the shot the bull came so 

 straight for us that one of the Kurrabas handed 

 me an 8-bore, and then he and the other men at 

 once bolted, thinking that the animal was charging. 

 He rushed blindly past me within a few paces, 

 when (after a miss from the first barrel) a bullet 

 from the 8-bore in the body knocked him over 

 on the spot, and brought the long chase to a very 

 fortunate conclusion. 



Whether the little bullet from the express, which 

 had hit the bull on one side of the chest, could 

 have affected him sufficiently to enable us to come 

 up with him again had he elected to bolt in another 

 direction, I am not prepared to say, but he would 

 undoubtedly have given us much labour and 

 trouble had he acted otherwise than exactly as 

 he elected to do. 



This was a grand old bull with a splendid head, 

 and I was delighted with my trophy. 



I think that I have now given sufficient incidents 

 in bison shooting out of a somewhat extensive ex- 

 perience of that sport, so I will close this chapter. 



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