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of them, although horridly disfigured, still 

 follows the chace, and woe to the bear he 

 gets a chance at. Another who was quite 

 blind, told me he was the man who had 

 saved an ofiicer's life (the story I had 

 heard), but poor fellow, he was unable to 

 save himself, and although he had lost his 

 eyesight, he did not appear to be so much 

 injured as some of the others. 



Leaving Derallee, we went up to Gan- 

 goutrie, shooting over two or three hills on 

 our way, and above Gangoutrie Ave had to 

 bridge the Ganges in two places, in order 

 to get to our best ground. We had just 

 finished the last bridge, and having worked 

 hard, had gone into the tent for a little 

 bread and cheese, when we heard the 

 coolies calling out that " a bear was coming 

 up the bank of the river." Wilson and I ran 

 out ; Charley stuck to his cheese ; and I shot 

 old Mrs. Bruin within two hundred yards of 

 our camp, and finished my bread and cheese 

 in five minutes. This done, I sententiously 

 delivered myself for Charley's benefit of the 



