DA^JGER OF APPROACHING A WOUNDED BEAR. lOI 
the sport and much excited. The oaly other bear shot on 
this trip I had the kilHng of all to myself ; I was out with a 
wild looking village shikarie after deer or anything I could 
get; suddenly the man whispered *'reech, reech *' (bear, bear) 
and was in such a frantic stEite of excitement that he threw 
his arms round me and I had some difficulty in throwing 
him off. I could not see the bear, but we heard him in the 
dry nullali (water course). He was making such a row that 
I at first thought there were two of them ; I could hear him 
coming nearer and nearer, when suddenly he appeared and 
stood up on his hind legs about twenty yards from me with 
a most comical look of "Who the deuce are you.^" Aiming 
at the centre of the white V across his chest, I fired, and on 
receiving the shot he began dancing*' Jim Crow," but after 
a minute or two he started off I soon caught him up, and 
gave him a couple more shots, but the first had done its 
work effectually, and after running a short distance he fell 
over dead. I ran considerable risk in placing myself along- 
side of a wounded bear in the open, for if he had not been 
so badly wounded he would have been pretty certain to have 
come at me. ' 
Some six months after this, I was out on a bear 
shooting expedition with a brother officer, on some rocky 
jungly hills about thirty- five miles from our station, where 
bears were said to abound. The plan adopted in that part 
of the country was to send people out before daylight, to 
watch for the bears cominij back to the hills after their 
nights marauding, when they would etiher retire into some 
rocky cave or under some thick bush. The first day nothing 
was done^ so we remained in cainp, the wonder of the 
villagers who came in swarms to look at us. The next 
