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seemed to have little other effect than to render 
him more savage and furious. His appearance 
was well calculated to appal the bravest, had we 
not felt assured that his strength was fast dimin- 
ishing. We ourselves were a little too con- 
fident, and narrowly escaped being overtaken by 
him through our imprudence. We placed our- 
selves directly in his front, and as he advanced, 
fired at his head and ran back, not supposing 
that he could overtake us; but he soon got with- 
in a few feet of our rear, with head lowered, and 
every preparation made for giving us a hoist; 
the next instant, however, we had jumped aside, 
and the animal was unable to alter his headlong 
course quick enough to avenge himself on us. 
Mr. Bell now put a ball directly through his. 
lungs, and with a gush of blood from the mouth 
and nostrils, he fell upon his knees and gave up 
the ghost, falling (as usual) on the side, quite 
dead. 
On another occasion, when the same party 
were hunting, near the end of the month of July, 
Mr. Squire wounded a bull twice, but no blood 
flowing from the mouth, it was concluded the 
wounds were only in the flesh, and the animal 
was shot by Mr. Culbertson, Owen McKenzie, 
and Mr. Squire, again. This renewed fire only 
seemed to enrage him the more, and he made a 
flash at the hunters so sudden and unexpected, 
