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exactly the same way, they would not face the little bit of open; they 
went a little way on it, then back they came and sat down close to 
me (to consider I suppose) ; there was jungle all round the open, so 
they might have cut across, but they appeared not to be able to see 
that there was, which no doubt was the case, on the other side of the open 
their sanctuary. I shot a she-bear and her cub, which was nearly. as big 
as his mother, but was still being suckled. Bears frequently take a lot of killing 
on account of the difficulty in placing one’s shotin a massof fur ; I was rather 
surprised at one I shot in the shoulder, breaking it, but not injuring any 
internal organs, it was up on its hind legs facing me, it went off quick 
enough, but did not go far before I heard it grizzling ; I went to the sound, about 
200 yards, and found him lying down bemoaning his luck; he was off again as 
soon as he saw me, but I knocked him over. My experience is that bears are 
easily knocked over, but they very quickly recover sufficiently from a most 
severe wound to get clear away. 
I made two small excursions into the buffalo country and saw a fair 
number, but did not bag a bull; I could not make out that there 
was a bull in the small herds of six and under which I pursued; if | 
there was a bull, he must have been quite young and with very smallhorns. A 
buffalo which I killed was an object-lesson for those gentlemen who are 
advocating small-bore rifles for big game ; I wounded it and had to follow up 
in thick jungle with much foliage. I could never get a fair shoulder-shot, but 
put four more bullets into its body without stopping it; my sixth shot at 
the root of the tail brought it down, and I finished it with a ‘500 Express behind 
the horns ; all the other six shots were from an 8 bore with 6 drams powder ; 
if I had not made the lucky shot at the root of the tail, the buffalo might 
have “‘eaten”’ more bullets ; all my shots were within less than 15 yards; I 
kept coming on the buffalo amongst the thick foliage, and as it was off as soon 
as it saw me, all my shots had to be snap, but, as I said before, they were all in 
the body ; this shot behind the head I found a capital one for finishing off 
wounded animals. I killed one of my garahs to putit out of its misery—it was 
in an awful state—and a sambhur instantaneously with my Rook rifle with 
this shot. 
As regards deer, 1 was woefully disappointed ; I only saw one sambhur, 
male or female, and very few chital ; of the latter I saw three stags, but with 
very poor horns ; discounting the grass and the foliage, Tam sure they are 
both remarkably scarce, I have beaten hills for the former, where the 
natives said there were ‘‘ bahut, bahut,” without seeing anything ; I think the 
cause of chital being scarce is the native shikari, as the part of Raipur I. have 
been in (south of Sambalpur road) has many villages and much cultivation, so 
they really have not a chance ; in fact in afew years to come Raipur will 
be played out asa shooting ground. New villages are constantly being settled. 
As an instance I will take Sankra on the Sambalpur road ; a very few years 
