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head to see what was going on, and a very 

 savage, ugly old head it was ; I sent auothei- 

 ball through his neck as he looked out, 

 which brought matters to a crisis, and out 

 he came straight at old Bahadoor and 

 myself. But as we were on higher ground 

 and had three barrels left, he had no chance, 

 although we nearly gave him one ; for as he 

 was about to close, I fired and missed, the 

 old Puharrie doing the same ; they however 

 turned the old boy down hill into the jungle, 

 and Ossaroo having dropped from his perch, 

 we all set oif in pursuit, and found him 

 sitting on his end in the jungle. His back 

 was towards me, and fixing one shot at him, 

 he rose up, took a few paces forward, and 

 rolled over, dead. The second shot in his 

 neck had settled him. He was a magnifi- 

 cent specimen of a snow-bear. We skinned 

 him, and left his carcase as a present to the 

 crows and vultures, which I rather grudged 

 them, for in Canada we should have eaten 

 him. 



We had scarcely returned to the feeding 



