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jungle or by the wood-cutting which a large camp 

 the cold weather necessitates. 

 While we were searching for the lost track of 

 he buffalo we came across two bears, a female 

 and a cub about three-quarters grown. I shot 

 he mother with the "350 through the heart, 

 he ran off, making a great noise, and, after 

 going for some distance, fell dead. The cub, 

 which was slightly in front of his mother, seeing her 

 all, turned back, caught hold of the body with 

 is forearms, and tried to lift her up. This dis- 

 play of natural affection rather put me off, and 

 K fired at the cub rather carelessly with the '450, 

 ounding him, but not badly. He gave a screech 

 id started to run directly past me into the 

 luick forest. As I threw up my rifle to fire the 

 l^^econd barrel, it went off in some unexplained 

 ^^fcianner, leaving me helpless with the bear within 

 l^po yards of me. He turned his head and snarled 

 ' at me, but fortunately for me he did not attack, 

 and ran on to the forest. We followed the blood 

 track for some distance, but could not come up 

 with him. 



After this incident we again turned our attention 

 to the buffaloes. Kana had heard of another 

 bull on the opposite side of the camp, and on 

 the following morning we began a hunt for him. 

 We visited some likely clearings before dawn, 

 and in one of these we found the buffalo grazing. 

 The wind was right, and it was a complete 

 surprise, and I very unwisely tried to kill him 

 with a shot in the forehead from the '350. The 

 shot was a difficult one, as the animal was facing 

 me, and his head was moving as he grazed, and I 



