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"dazed from the loss of blood, and he was therefore able to 
twist himself out of the way. It, however, caught him a very 
severe blow on the knee, which nearly dislocated it, and made 
it necessary to carry him into camp on a litter ; but after a little 
careful doctoring and complete rest he was able to take the 
field again in three weeks. 
_ On cutting up the beast, I found the 4-bore bullet was too 
far back, and also too high. The first 8-bore bullet had caught 
the beast fair behind the shoulder, and had gone through both 
_ lungs ratherlow down, and I think, if the beast had been left alone 
after it had been knocked down by the next shot, it would very 
soon have died quietly; but, as it was, the men rushing up and 
standing round it seemed to inspire it with a final desire for 
revenge. The second 8-bore bullet was, as I expected, too 
_ high, and had passed through the dorsal ridge just above the 
vertebre. The shot fired at it as it ran past me caught it in 
_ the proper place, went through both lungs and just grazed the 
heart, and it is more than probable that it was this shot which 
prevented what might have been a serious accident. 
The other old bull, although we followed him for a long 
way, eager for revenge, got clean away. 
