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pointed me out two others making their way up the 

 hill by the same route. Standing behind a rock so 

 as not to alarm them, I let drive right and left as 

 they passed within a few paces of me. • They were 

 both badly hit behind the shoulder, and each must 

 have imagined the other was the cause of his injury, 

 for with a ferocious noise they immediately attacked 

 each other, and closing in a hug, rolled down the 

 hill some short distance. I followed with my 

 second gun, and found one dead and the other 

 leaning over him in a very deplorable condition. He 

 was too far gone to take any notice of my approach, 

 although he continued to make a fearful moaning, 

 which I put a stop to by giving him a quietus in 

 the shape of a pill behind the ear, which finished 

 his career. 



I had just commenced reloading, when I heard a 

 loud straggling volley from the top of the hill where 

 my friends were posted, and almost immediately it 

 was followed by a shriek from the Mulliarry, whom 

 I saw make a spring into the jungle just in time to 

 avoid the charge of a huge female bear who came 

 rushing down the watercourse in a most ferocious 

 manner. I was directly in her path, and with a 

 roar she made right at me ; I let drive at her head 

 with my only barrel that had not been discharged, 

 but it failed to stop her, and she had knocked me 

 down and w^as on me in the twinkling of an eye. 



The slope of the hill was steep, and we both of 

 us rolled over and over several times ; I was almost 



