294 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
threw our weight on to the other side, to coun: 
terpoise that of the animal, and commenced a 
pell-mell battery on him with the oars and a 
boat-hook; the men in the other boat also at- 
tacked him, and driving the bow of their skiff 
close to his head, one of them laid his skull 
open with an axe, which killed him instanter. 
We jointly hurraed, and tying a rope round his 
neck, towed him ashore behind our boata 
