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often attacks wood-cutters and others without 

 any provocation. 



We reached the Reserved Forest in two or 

 three days, and Tweedie began a hunt for buffalo. 

 On the first day on which he went out I followed 

 after sunrise along the forest line, and a bear 

 crossed the line in front of us. Seeing us, he 

 broke into a gallop, and I could not resist having 

 a shot at him. He was about 70 yards away, 

 and I hit him, but too far back, and did not fire 

 again. The noise made by the -450 in the stillness 

 of the forest was so great that I was afraid of 

 scaring away all the buffaloes in the vicinity, 

 and of spoiling Tweedie' s chance. The bear 

 therefore got away. I was sorry afterwards 

 that I had not fired again, as I might have had a 

 second good shot, and a bag of all five animals 

 in so few days would have been unique. I was, 

 however, very anxious that Tweedie should get 

 a buffalo. 



He hunted for four or five days without success 

 in the Reserved Forest, and in the adjacent 

 Jaipur Agency tracts, in which the Raja most 

 courteously invited us to shoot, and the prospect 

 looked black; but the chance came. As he was 

 walking one evening with the trackers along the 

 bed of a sandy nullah Dhokuri spotted the horn 

 of a buffalo projecting above a long rock in the 

 bed of the nullah. On the other side of this rock 

 there was a pool, and in the pool a buffalo bull 

 was having a bath. It was a great opportunity. 

 The bull had not heard their feet on the sand, 

 and was taken completely by surprise. They 

 walked straight up to the rock, and the frightened 



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