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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WA VS 
CHAP. 
before I had a moment to fire; and after two 
successive chances of this kind, the bear escaped 
into the opposite jungle, and we searched for it 
in vain. 
We now returned, and with some difficulty drove 
Hurri Ram to the scene of conflict. There was a 
bear lying dead. The howls and roars had ceased, 
and a few yards to the left of the dead bear was 
a large black mass : this was another bear, in the 
last gasp. Both had been knocked over by only 
one bullet from the Paradox. 
Although I had only seen one bear, and that 
most indistinctly, it appeared that the bullet, being 
intensely hard, and propelled by 4^ drams of 
powder, had gone completely through the shoulder 
of the original bear, and then struck an unseen 
companion, who must have been some yards distant 
upon lower ground beyond. The bullet had broken 
the shoulder of this unlucky friend, and was sticking 
in its lungs, having carried a bundle of coarse 
black hair from bear No. i and deposited it upon 
its course in bear No. 2. 
Although these were full-grown bears, there 
can be little doubt that the bear that had so 
determinedly attacked the elephant was the mother, 
infuriated by the roars and howls of her dying 
offspring. The penetration of the Paradox bullet 
was highly satisfactory, but I was terribly 
disgusted with Hurri Ram, whose misconduct 
had caused the loss of bear No. 3, which would 
most certainly have been included in the list of 
