CHAPTER X. 



A Gosein's hut No escape for Bruin A long beat Monkeys 

 and Tigers A critical position A Spread Eagle shot Its 

 happy effects Stewed-eel soup An " Old Female." 



WHILE they were yet at breakfast on the fol- 

 lowing morning, a man came in to say that a bear 

 was marked down, and, luckily, at no great 

 distance. 



Mackenzie's feet were so blistered as not to admit 

 of his wearing his usual heavy shooting-shoes. 

 These were replaced by a pair of easy worsted- 

 worked slippers, the manufacture and gift of some 

 fair lady. The bear had fortunately condescended 

 to take up his quarters in a place, the immediate 

 neighbourhood of which was attainable on horseback. 

 A fine group of trees, shadowing a welling spring, 

 also gave shelter to the hut of a gosein, or Hindoo 

 devotee, and the rudely-carved specimens of red- 

 painted stones which did duty for gods. 



The gosein was not so absorbed in holy contem- 

 plation, nor his mind so withdrawn from the current 

 affairs of this lower world, as to be ignorant of the 



