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succeeded in finding any traces of his 

 wounded aninial. 



The following morning we set forth for the 

 cave, accompanied by villagers with dogs, 

 crowbars, pickaxes, and torches. On reaching 

 the spot, we found the branches all strewn 

 about and Bruin gone ; so placing the army 

 of men, dogs, &c., in the rear, we commenced 

 another tracking match, which proved both 

 tedious and diflicult ; but we housed him at 

 last in another cave, the third he had brought 

 us to ; it was a very large one, with a wide 

 mouth, and from it a fall down to a stream 

 below, through the forest, of about four 

 hundred yards. The dogs were of no use. 

 After a close examination of the ground, we 

 discovered two other openings into the 

 cave. This made three apertures ; the 

 mouth of the main cave, where Colls was 

 stationed, and the entrances to two branches 

 of the cavern, one to the right, and the 

 other to the left. 



" Now take up your posts, — away from the 

 mouth of the cave, all hands, — now, Karla, 



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