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and through by a great quantity of wounds. 

 The greater number of these wounds must 

 have been given after death, as at daybreak 

 the bull's anger was by no means suspended ; 

 he returning every now and then to the body, 

 and, rushing at it, drove his horns clean 

 through it, kneeling on it and butting at it 

 in desperate fury. Besides the wounds he 

 had received at the previous encounter, he 

 got very badly wounded in the last one also ; 

 but it was so dangerous to go near him that 

 it was only upon going for refreshment to the 

 stream (of which he had great need) that he 

 could be lassoed and his many gashes closed, 

 mostly by sewing them up. I am sorry to 

 say that this bull retained such a 'penchant 

 for the use of his horns that they were very 

 soon reblunted. 



When the panther attacks large cattle, he 

 most likely takes them by surprise ; couch- 

 ing on a low bough of a tree, he jumps on the 

 shoulder, and fixing three of his claws into 

 the sides and neck, and his teeth near to the 

 jugular vein, with the remaining fore-paw 

 he gets hold fast of the animal's nose, and 

 forces it down to the chest. If he succeeds 

 it stops the speed of the cow or ox, and at the 

 same time swells the jugular veins, which he 



