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asleep before the cloth was removed, and 

 all my efforts to awake him were 

 ineffectual, so I directed his servants to 

 take off his necktie and boots and place 

 him on his bed, which was done, and I 

 rather envied him the next morning when 

 I saw him so well forward in dressing. 



We started again at daylight, and this 

 day's sport was better, which we attributed 

 to our being further away from canton- 

 ments. We did not begin shooting very 

 early as we had to ascend a steep 

 mountain which quite knocked up the 

 poor coolies, but, we cheeredthem with a 

 promise that we would endeavour to 

 procure them another bear ; in this, how- 

 ever, we failed, Smith had an encounter 

 with one, but let him escape in a clumsy 

 manner. He had rather a narrow escape 

 himself, for, when the bear charged hirn 



