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of the other. There were numerous traces of blood on the 

 ground, and it was not long before I caught sight of the tsine 

 limping painfully along. Telling my men to remain behind, 

 I ran quickly but quietly on, and put in a shot which took 

 effect in the small of the ribs and raked his vitals forward, the 

 bullet making its exit through the right shoulder-blade. The 

 shot brought him to a standstill, but he turned round and 

 faced me with his head down, shaking it at intervals, and 

 stamping the while with his feet. I took good care to have a 

 bamboo clump between us, in case he should make up his 

 mind to charge. 



After a little manoeuvring I managed to work my way 

 round to his flank, but no sooner did he catch sight of me 

 than he wheeled round again and faced me with lowered 

 head, snorting at intervals. My patience was by this time 

 exhausted, so aiming point-blank for the frontal bone, I fired. 

 The tsine dropped like a stone, and after a few short struggles 

 was hors de combat. 



After disembowelling him we made tracks for camp. En 

 route, while rounding a bend of the Nampan stream, which 

 had at that time very little water in it, we came suddenly 

 upon a pack of wild dogs which had pulled down a sambur. 

 The poor beast was still struggling when we appeared upon 

 the scene. I had no time to change my 8-bore for a smaller 

 weapon before the dogs had disappeared. The sambur had been 

 ham-strung, and its hind-quarters were fearfully lacerated, as 

 also were the neck and throat. The latter was punctured in a 

 dozen places. The deer was a full-grown doe, and on dis- 

 embowelling her we found she was with young, which would 

 have probably been born in a day or two. 



These wild dogs do a great deal of damage to the deer 

 tribe, especially to sambur and barking deer, both of which 

 are run down and winded by these plucky and hardy little 

 poachers. It is not often that one comes across them, as they 

 are very shy. 



Richardson of the Police, whilst out on tour in the Ruby 

 Mines district, between the village of Ginnwe and Pinkan, 

 came upon a pack of these animals, which had just pulled 

 down a barking deer or gyi. He dismounted from his pony 



