BEAR-SHOOTING IN TRANSYLVANIA, 405 
with his tongue hanging out, to my brother-in-law, who most 
likely gave him a shot low down in the shoulder. From that 
point he made a slight curve through the beat, and came out 
by Baron §., who missed him with both barrels; but by this 
time he had had about enough of it, so bursting impetuously 
through the line of beaters, he plunged down the steep hillside 
followed by one of my dogs. 
We found a good deal of blood at my brother-in-law’s post, 
where the first shot had been fired, and with others of the 
party I now followed up the trail, which led us down to the 
valley, -where some labourers ‘had seen the bear, and then 
unfortunately uphill again into the first beat of the day. To 
go on would have been useless, and we could only hope to get 
a second shot at the wounded beast by making another drive. 
As the bear was not very hard-hit we thought that it would 
never stop in the first beat through which so many men had 
passed, so we took the most outlying wood of this chain of 
heights, in the direction of the main valley; but this beat, alas! 
was unsuccessful, as was also the first, which we made over 
again as a precautionary measure. 
When the beat was finished we again took up the trail 
where we found plenty of blood, and at first even some 
splinters of bone; but on seeing that the wounded animal had, 
after descending the slope and crossing a brook, held on up 
the steep hillside, we gave up the pursuit, and sent a couple 
of trackers to follow it up, who returned in the evening 
equally unlucky. 
The third beat was blank; in the fourth, which was not a 
very large cover, a bear passed near Baron K., but out of 
shot and often concealed by the bushes. The cunning beast 
must then have found a spot where no gun was posted, for it 
got away unseen. 
On the 29th we tried the lower woods, and began by taking 
the beat into which the bear had crossed without being shot 
