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Tile hair >lill cliiii''' In till' rf>iii(tiis liai-k hi tlic liri"lil of 

 six feet six iiidies; so that ihcsr Tn iciicaii I M,'ars sometimes 

 attain 11(1 nicau size. 



( Ml another occasion mv IViciKl t he late Sir \'ictor Drookc 

 killed a larf_i,'e female, as iiick would liavo it. the da\' 

 before I joiiu'tl liini. He woiuhKmI her severely at the first 

 s1iot , and, foHow iii^ ii[i ihrliloodx- t rack, entered ;i patch of 

 tail liox hushes, so dense that he liad to <-i'a\\l in on hands 

 and knees. The dog', who had hccii following up the line, 

 joined him, and, moving hy his side stej) l)y step, sho\vc(l 

 b}' Ills erect hackles and trembling limbs, that the bear was 

 close at hand. This was a very risky proceeding, the 

 moi'o so, as when the shot was fire*], she had a cub at licr 

 side. Uut she would not face her determine(l pursuer, ami 



bolted into the open where Mr. P , who was stationed 



on the other side of the river, finished hei' with a well- 

 directed shot. 



Once onh' had an\' member of m\'part\' a success, with 

 bears, and that was in a dri\e f«»r ibex. ^1\' brother was 

 posted at the foot of a clitf, where it projected in a shai'p 

 angular mass, TTis position was ou a favotu'iti^ tra(d': of 

 ibex, but at some height above it, on the face of the clilf, 

 there was another alternative route whi<li had to be 

 guarded. ( )ld Antonio was placeil here with orders to 

 turn an \lliing that appeared. I think he inii>t ha\'e been 

 asleep : at any rale, he realised so suddenly that some wild 

 beast was within a vard or two of him that, forijctlniij his 

 instructions, or feeling himself unable to tm-n it, he fii-ed 

 his rickety old piece which was 1oade(l with buck shot, 

 into tlie flank of the animal. The bear, Ibr bear it was, 

 turned, and sprang straight over the clitf. Xow the 



