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careful aim for his shoulder and fired, the distance being 

 about ten yards. At the shot the bear spun round, and made 

 short rushes in all directions, growling savagely the while. 



I now blazed into him as fast as I could load, telling 

 my shikari, who had my heavy rifle, that he was on no 

 account to fire unless the bear got hold of me in the scuffle, 

 and in the end I managed to kill him with a shot in the 

 temple. 



Since then, as will be seen later, I have killed a bull 

 bison with this little rifle, thus proving that, providing an 

 animal is hit in the right spot, a light rifle is as deadly as 

 a heavier weapon, no matter what the size of the beast 

 may be. The rifle in question was built by Henry of 

 Edinburgh, for that well-known sportsman the late Colonel 

 Baigree. 



A few days after my adventure with this bear, S 



bagged a very fine bull bison. It took two men to bring in 



his head, and as I told S at the time, although I was 



well satisfied with my ten feet two inches tiger, I would 

 willingly have exchanged with him for that grand old bull, 

 whose measurements I never capped, though I have shot 

 many of these animals since. 



Of these, the most notable, though not in point of size, 

 was the one I have just referred to as having shot with the 

 •360 rifle. The incident happened in the Satpudas, where 

 I was shooting on one occasion with Captain, now Colonel, 



P , whom I had known well when attached to his 



regiment, the 19th Bombay Infantry. 



We were encamped in the depths of the jungle, far 

 away from any human habitation. The jungle cocks were 

 crowing as we turned out in the morning and ascended 

 the mountain, accompanied by our beaters, to look for 

 sambar. 



Hardly had we separated with the intention of watching 

 different passes or " runs " accessible to the deer, when 

 Bapu, my shikari, pointed to some dull objects far away in 

 the valley below us. My field-glasses told me they were 

 bison, and we at once commenced a stalk. 



There was one bull and four cows in the herd, and the 

 wind being favourable, I crawled up to a bamboo clump 

 within ten yards of them. I had my heavy rifle, also the 

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