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about cutting it off accordingly. The other horn 

 was broken short off about six inches from the skull, 

 and the injury I should think must have been caused 

 by a bullet. 



On examining the carcass, I found that the shot 

 fired across the valley had hit him just in front of the 

 left thigh, and trending slightly backwards through 

 the intestines had smashed the right thigh-bone rather 

 high up just below the hip, and then passed out, 

 making a hole through the skin quite as large as 

 would have been made by an expanding 45obore 

 bullet. The last shot fired at close quarters, as he 

 rushed down the side of the ravine in which we 

 had found him lying, had entered in the flank and 

 passed up through the stomach, but had not left the 

 body. Considering the severity of these two wounds, 

 I think the tenacity of life displayed by this old goat 

 little short of marvellous. With a broken hip and 

 very severe internal injuries in addition, he had yet 

 managed to climb up and down the sides of several 

 steep ravines and put a distance of many hundred 

 yards between himself and his enemies before finally 

 lying down to die. 



When we found him he could not have been long 

 dead, and on the preceding afternoon some of the 

 peasants whom I had hired to assist in the search for 

 the wounded animal must have passed quite close to 

 where he was lying, still alive but unable to move. 

 Strange to say, not a drop of blood had exuded from 



