CHAPTER X11I. 



A Man seized Another Spread Eaglo shot At close Quarters 

 Anecdotes Determined Hostility of Bears An Officer saved 

 by tho Natives A Bear rampant Narrow Escape of a Lady 

 A "dour" from Camp A Bullock drove Preparations 

 for a Night Sitting. 



THE hopes for the morrow did not prove delusive. 

 A Lear was viewed into some jungle considerably 

 beyond the devotee's hut, past which the path took 

 the hunters. The gosein was there, and with his 

 scholar, or disciple, whom he was instructing in the 

 rudiments of his devotional exercises, came forward 

 to salute the gentlemen as they passed. But they 

 did not linger there, for they had yet a long way 

 to go. 



To each sportsman was assigned a separate spot 

 overlooking a large tract of jungle ; but either the 

 beat was not so well arranged as usual or they were 

 less fortunate, for the bear broke away through the 

 beaters at a place unguarded by any of them, and, 

 unfortunately, not without some damage to one 

 man, who with a few fellows endeavoured to turn 



