CHAPTER VIII. 



The Chilling-ham Herd (continued) — Shooting of a Bull by H.R.H. the Prince of 

 "Wales— Visit of Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell, Mr. Booth, and Mr. Thornton— 

 My own Visit in 1874 — Length of Time the Calves are suckled — Desirability 

 of examining Creswell Moss for Fossil Remains. 



The great event which, of late years has brought the 

 Chillingham cattle prominently before the public was 

 the successful pursuit by the Prince of Wales of the 

 noblest unreclaimed animal our country still produces, 

 the yet wild and even savage descendant of Caledonia's 

 wild bull. His Royal Highness, a true Briton in his 

 love for field sports, had long taken his part in them at 

 home, and abroad had shown his skill in pursuing and 

 bringing down the wild animals of various kinds with 

 which the carefully preserved domains of the monarchs 

 of Russia and Prussia abounded. But two of the 

 noblest denizens of Europe's primeval forests he had 

 never yet seen in a state of nature : the European 

 Bison, still preserved by the Czar of Russia in a remote 

 forest of Lithuania,* and the still living descendant of 

 Caesar's indomitable Urus in a similarly wild state in his 

 own country. Chillingham had the honour of making 

 him acquainted with the latter. 



On the 15th of October, 1872, f the Prince and 



* Bialowitz, or Bialowiera. 



t For the following particulars I am partly indebted to Mr. Robert 

 Redpath, of the Newcastle Daily Journal, who has sent me the accounts 

 published in that paper ; and partly to Mr. Michie, the head keeper, 

 who accompanied and directed the Prince. 



