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my only barrel that had not been discharged, but it 

 failed to stop her, and she had knocked me down 

 and was on me in the twinkling of an eye. 



The slope of the hill was steep, and we both of us 

 rolled over and over several times; I was almost 

 breathless, when Googooloo rushed on her with his 

 bill-hook and endeavoured to attract her attention. 

 Luckily she could not bite at all, as my shot had 

 smashed her snout and lower jaw to pieces ; but she 

 kept me locked in her embrace, and squeezed me 

 more roughly than affectionately. 



My head was well protected with a bison-skin cap ; 

 and getting a tight grasp of her fur on each side, with 

 my arms underneath hers, so that she could not do 

 me much injury with her claws, I regularly wrestled 

 with her for some time ; and although I brought my 

 science to play, and threw her on her back several 

 times " by giving her the leg," she never let go her 

 hug, and I was almost suffocated with the quantity 

 of blood and froth that came from her wound and 

 covered my face, beard, and chest. 



Googooloo made frantic hits at her from time to 

 time with his bill-hook (the only weapon he had, 



having lent D his knife), but I ordered him to 



desist, as his blows did not appear to do the bear 

 much harm, and I was afraid of catching one. At 

 last Bruin appeared to be getting weaker, and I saw 

 her wounds and loss of blood were telling ; and after 



