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seemed to have little other effect than to render 

 him more savage and furious. His appearance 

 was well calculated to appal the bravest, had we 

 not felt assured that his strength was fast dimin- 

 ishing. We ourselves were a little too con- 

 fident, and narrowly escaped being overtaken by 

 him through our imprudence. We placed our- 

 selves directly in his front, and as he advanced, 

 fired at his head and ran back, not supposing 

 that he could overtake us ; but he soon got with- 

 in a few feet of our rear, with head lowered, and 

 every preparation made for giving us a hoist ; 

 the next instant, however, we had jumped aside, 

 and the animal was unable to alter his headlong 

 course quick enough to avenge himself on us. 

 Mr. Bell now put a ball directly through his 

 lungs, and witli a gush of blood from the mouth 

 and nostrils, he fell upon his knees and gave up 

 the ghost, falling (as usual) on the side, quite 

 dead. 



On another occasion, when the same party 

 were hunting, near the end of the month of July, 

 Mr. Squire wounded a bull twice, but no blood 

 flowing from the mouth, it was concluded the 

 wounds were only in the flesh, and the animal 

 was shot by Mr. Culbertson, Owen McKenzie, 

 and Mr. Squire, again. This renewed fire only 

 seemed to enrage him the more, and he made a 

 dash at the hunters so sudden and unexpected, 



