Archive image from page 124 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 EXPERIENCES IN CENTRAL PROVINCES 95 deer, and goodness only knows how many monkeys. And they used all to be led after us on strings when we went out for a round of golf in the afternoons ! The second cave was blank. But the one above produced two more bears. One was lost, owing to our friend of the baby-bear episode planting himself, unbeknown to me, in a place of safety which was directly in the line of fire. The second bear we had nearly given up. All the
Archive image from page 124 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 EXPERIENCES IN CENTRAL PROVINCES 95 deer, and goodness only knows how many monkeys. And they used all to be led after us on strings when we went out for a round of golf in the afternoons ! The second cave was blank. But the one above produced two more bears. One was lost, owing to our friend of the baby-bear episode planting himself, unbeknown to me, in a place of safety which was directly in the line of fire. The second bear we had nearly given up. All the crackers and squibs were exhausted. Burning grass had no effect, and I had just called out to the shikari that we would give it up when without a sound a black form appeared at the mouth of the cave, hung there for an instant and made off down-hill at its best pace. I had uncocked the rifle and laid it down preparatory to getting off the rock I was on. So the bear got a start. My bullet caught him far back and the second missed altogether, but turned him so that he took a more diagonal course. Picking up the Lee-Metford I aimed well forward and rolled him over. But he was up again and disappeared amongst some rocks. I did not want to lose him if there was a chance of bringing him to bag, so we hurriedly set off in pursuit. There was plenty of blood on the trail and we were soon amongst some large boulders, where circumspection was necessary, as none of
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