HEARS. 29 



entered the cairn before described. I was posted on tin- 

 extreme right, facing the hill as a long stop, my friends 

 being closer to the cairn, and, believing that due warning 

 would be given by their rifles of any janwar coming in my 

 direction, I was taking it easy, and smoking a pipe under 

 a shady tree. 



During the beat something moving among the bushes 

 on the right caught my eye, and presently a bear emerging 

 therefrom, passed me about sixty yards off, at the other 

 side of a rocky nullah. On getting my right barrel, he 

 turned round and bit his hind leg savagely ; then, 

 catching sight of me, he charged, receiving my fire until 

 he collapsed under a bush close by. Meanwhile, hearing 

 Poulton shout, I was obliged to watch the progress of tin- 

 beat, and, on turning round again, there was the bear fifty 

 yards off, and going gaily away ! Two more shots, 

 stopped him for ever, and, on examination, we found he 

 had been hit by two bullets in the head, one through the 

 near shoulder, two just behind the heart, and the first shot 

 had struck him in the thigh. One of those in the head 

 must have grazed the brain and temporarily stunned him. 

 He had passed close to my friends, but had been hidden 

 by the rough ground. The elephant men asked that the 

 elephant might be allowed to play with the carcase, which 

 was carried down and placed before him. An amusing 

 game of football then took place, the elephant shuffling the 

 body between his fore and hind legs for some seconds, 

 then projected it backwards with the fore legs, and took a 

 flying shot at it with one of the ponderous hind legs, 

 which invariably missed the mark. At length lie 

 made a " bull's-eye," and sent the carcase spinning away 

 for ten yards. Then he became so excited he charged 

 us, and we dare not approach him for nearly an 



