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the bullet-holes, not even on the spot where we 

 found him dead, and where he must have lain for a 

 long time. With the first goat I had killed it was 

 the same, for although being hit through the lungs, 

 he had thrown out blood very freely from his mouth 

 and nostrils, none had run out from the bullet-holes. 

 The very large ram, too, which the Turkish hunter 

 found dead, and which I have, I think, every reason 

 to believe had died from a wound inflicted by my 

 rifle, had left no blood spoor. Are these cases of 

 no effusion of blood from bullet-wounds mere coin- 

 cidences, or is it the case that, speaking generally, 

 wounds inflicted by the .303 rifle with expanding bul- 

 lets do not cause such an effusion of blood exter- 

 nally as would be the case with rifles of larger bore ? 

 The three wounds I was able to examine were not 

 tiny holes drilled by solid bullets, but were made by 

 bullets that had expanded on impact, and which had 

 cut jagged wounds of the diameter of a shilling 

 through everything they had touched; and possibly 

 it is the jagged nature of the wounds inflicted that 

 accounts for the want of haemorrhage; for a hollow- 

 pointed leaden bullet (if it does not break up) simply 

 expands and makes a clean wound, whilst the hollow- 

 pointed nickel-coated .303 bullet shreds up into sharp- 

 edged ribbons of the nickel coating for half its length, 

 each of which is bent over towards the base of the 

 bullet, and which form altogether an irregular face 

 of half an inch or more in diameter. Is it not pos- 



