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His horns were somewhat splintered at the tips, and measured sixty-six and a half 

 inches from tip to tip, along the curve and across the forehead ; their circumference at the 

 base being seventeen inches. 



We were barely two miles from camp, to which I now returned, and the remainder of 

 the day was occupied in skinning the dead Gaur — a labor of considerable difficulty with 

 unskilled men. 



On the following morning we hunted at first in the opposite direction from camp, but 

 during a long walk we did not even see a recent track, so we made a wide circuit and revi- 

 sited yesterday's ground. We had sat down to smoke, when a movement in the jungle 

 attracted the attention of one of my men, and, on going to ascertain the cause, I found fresh 

 tracks of Gaur. Following them up, I saw a small bull against the sky line, but he at once 

 disappeared, and on reaching the top of the hill we saw an old bull and a young one in full 

 retreat, having evidently got our wind. They went right away over a distant hill, and as it 

 was late in the forenoon, I returned to camp. Early in the afternoon I sent men to see if they 

 could find the bulls that we disturbed in the morning, while I remained to superintend the 

 preservation of the heads. Shortly afterwards a man came in with news of a herd that he had 

 seen in a valley several miles off. I at once started, and, after a hot walk of five miles down 

 a steep hill I found — a herd of tame cattle ! I was naturally considerably annoyed, as a 

 walk of ten miles up and down hill on a May afternoon is not what one would undertake 

 without some inducement ; and I was not much better pleased at hearing from my men that 

 they had ascertained that all the Gaur had left the jungle and had gone to a favorite haunt 

 several miles away. 



I had been told of a very good place about eight miles to the west of my camp, and I 

 accordingly, marched to it on the morning of the third day. On my arrival, however, I found 

 that the hills had been cleared and brought under cultivation within the last three or four 

 years, and that no Gaur were ever now seen there. A villager whom I questioned assured 

 me that he had recently seen the fresh tracks of a herd in a valley about five miles to the 

 south, so on the fourth day I made for the spot, only to find that the valley was full of wood- 

 cutters, and that all the game had left. There was nothing for it but to return to the village 

 where I had left my tents, and make a fresh start. 



I had lost three days by my westward move, but by daylight on the 18th I was again on 

 the hill tops, this time to the south-east of the village. We had just reached the plateau, 

 and walked perhaps four hundred yards, when a herd was discovered. I had no difficulty 

 in stalking them, and got right in among them, but I found that they we're all cows, so I left 

 them unmolested. 



Continuing our walk along a long level ridge for upwards of a mile, we at length saw 

 another herd among some trees on a hill about a mile and a half away. We could not make 

 out whether there was a bull among them or not, but we at once set out for the spot. We 

 had gone about half way when a bull appeared among some thick bushes almost on our path 

 He was about five hundred yards off, and the ground was favorable for stalking, so I lost no 

 time in approaching him. He was now concealed among the bushes, but after a careful 



