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cut up, probably picking up the refuse. I resolved to try 

 for him, so we ascended, and, having gained our point, 

 thought him clean gone, when I saw something move in 

 the bushes again thought I was deceived, when the 

 shikarrics twigged him in some bushes across the ravine 

 a long shot. I struck him with an Enfield, evidently a 

 severe wound, bringing him down, and fired other guns 

 at him, as after deceiving us, making as though he were 

 going to die 011 the spot, he went off in the jungle. I 

 sent the shikarries in pursuit, and ere long they appeared 

 with the dead bear, drawing him down the snow a 

 small brute riddled with bullets. 



On our way to camp we saw a fox with a splendid 

 brush. I got within some eighty yards of him, and 

 levelled Whitworth, steadying him on a rock bang ! and 

 away went renard. Asking where the ball struck, the 

 shikarries said, high up above the fox. I thought this 

 very odd, and accused Phuttoo of putting in too much 

 powder, who declared he had only put in the regular 

 charge. Meantime, the fox was running up and down, 

 and round and round, in an absurd manner, Mooktoo 

 laughing at him, who sung out he had dropped dead, and 

 ran off to secure him. Phuttoo and I, looking on, saw, 

 as we thought, the animal betaking himself to the hills at 

 a good pace, and called out to Mooktoo to come back, 

 saying it was of no use. . But on he went, not heeding 

 us, and was soon seen striking something, and then held 

 up the dead fox, another having run off, and deceived 

 Phuttoo and me. The victim was shot right through 

 behind the shoulders. 



14th June. A rainy morning, with every appearance 

 of a continuance so, not unwillingly, I betook myself 

 again to the comfortable warmth of my blankets. 



In the afternoon I went in the same direction as 

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