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occasionally used his hands to quicken his 
pace, and he impelled himself forward with 
greater rapidity by means of a bough. 
With this aid he travelled as fast as a fleet 
horse, so that had the adjacent country been 
covered with w'ood he must have escaped. At 
Ramboom, however, there are but few trees 
left standing among the cultivated fields. On 
reaching trees, he gained, by an exertion of 
surjwising strength, and at one spring, a very 
lofty branch, from which he bounded with the 
ease of the smaller monkeys. Here he was 
first shot. After receiving five shots his ex- 
ertions relaxed, owing to the loss of blood ; 
and his pursuers, having expended their am- 
munition, were obliged to resort to other mea- 
sures for his destruction. It is probable that 
the first or second ball had penetrated his 
lungs ; for, immediately after the infliction of 
the wound, he slung himself by his feet from 
a branch with his head downward, and allowed 
