SEA-BULL. 
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surprise, instead of endeavouring to make his escape, 
he charged right at me, at great speed. He stopped 
for a second about twenty yards off, and I gave 
him a pill under the ear, which made him spin 
round and round like a top. I fired two more 
bullets into his body without effect, missed him 
with a third (meant for his head), and began to 
fear we were to lose him altogether, as he seemed 
recovering, and was gradually getting farther and 
farther away into deep water, and giving very poor 
chances of a shot. The sun was shining so directly 
on him, that I could not see to shoot a bit; the foot¬ 
ing was slippery, and I was half way up to my middle 
in mud and water, when I got a last chance, and 
put the ball exactly between the ear and the eye, and 
