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slightly alarmed. They were not more than seventy 

 or eighty yards away from me, amongst big timber, 

 the trunks of the trees not being very close together. 

 However, it was not very easy to get a clear shot, 

 and I could not immediately fire ; and when I did so 

 the two bulls were nearing the edge of a small gully. 

 I fired at the leading animal, and felt sure I had 

 hit him, and got another cartridge into my single- 

 barrelled rifle just as his companion pushed past him 

 on the very edge of the afore-mentioned gully. I 

 now tried to get a shot at the latter, but he was 

 completely shielded by the one first hit, into which 

 I therefore put a second bullet. Both animals then 

 disappeared into the gully ; and though I could not be 

 certain, it almost appeared to me that the wounded 

 one fell into it. The unwounded one, however, ap- 

 peared again almost immediately, a short distance 

 higher up the gully on the same side by which he 

 had entered it, and commenced to climb diagonally 

 up the forest-covered slope above him. When about 

 one hundred yards from me, he stopped and turned 

 half round, probably to look for his companion. 



As he stood, I got a clear view of him through the 

 trees, and fired at him. This bullet struck him in 

 the chest just in front of the left shoulder and must 

 have passed through his heart, or cut some of the 

 big arteries just above it, as he collapsed almost im- 

 mediately, and came sliding, an inert mass, down the 

 steep snow slope, until at last brought up against 



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