126 A CURIOUS HEAD. 



a ball through his heart. He never got on his legs 

 again. My astonishment may be conceived, when I 

 examined his head, five and three quarter inches 

 between the eyes; his body was the biggest and 

 heaviest I ever saw in the forest/' 



Alister has the skull now in his possession ; he 

 prizes it very highly, and has had it fitted up as a 

 drinking- cup. 



