ADVENTURES IN CAMP AND JUNGLE. 45 



him, and made him out to be about seventeen hands high at 

 the shoulder, with fine well-preserved horns. 



These large solitary bulls are at times very savage. They 

 separate themselves from the herds, and their lonely life seems 

 to make them vindictive and morose. When wounded they 

 will charge repeatedly with great ferocity, and on these occa- 

 sions the nerve and activity of the hunter are put to the test, 

 and woe betide him unless he succeeds in gaining the shelter- 

 ing trunk of some tree. Emaum informed me that he had a 

 narrow escape on one occasion when he had wounded one of 

 these bulls. He was pursued, but succeeded in getting behind 

 a tree. The bull drew up about twenty yards from him, watching 

 his opportunity, for the forest was of large growth, and Emaum 

 could see no tree up which he had any chance of climbing before 

 the bull could overtake him. At length he bethought himself 

 of his blanket, which he carried over his shoulder, and as the 

 bull drew back for another charge he placed the blanket 

 on the end of his long gun, and holding it out from behind 

 the tree shook it defiantly. Accepting the challenge, the bull 

 lowered his head, and came on with a rush. Catching the 

 blanket on his horns, he dashed on through the jungle, while 

 Emaum, bolting off in the opposite direction, made good his 

 escape. 



We found the best way to preserve the skulls of bison was 

 to bury them up to the horns in the earth for three or four 

 days, after removing the skin and as much flesh as could be 

 got at with the knife. At the end of that time the horns 

 might be pulled off after a few blows from a tent-peg. We 

 then dug up the head, fastened a rope round the bone of the 

 horns and flung it into the river, where the fish soon cleaned 

 the skull. 



On one occasion only did I see a tiger in the Dandelly. I 



