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Title: Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Hunting East Indies -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t bare. Its body color is a darkmahogany brown, deepening to black in old bulls ; the forehead andlegs below the knees are dirty white, while the inside of the fore-arms, thighs, and ears, both skin and hair, are of a rich ochre yellow.The iris is pale blue, the end of the nose and the lij^s dirty white.The hump of the bison is nearly in the middle of the back, fromwhich the dorsal ridge drops abruptly four or five inches to the loins.The legs are very neat and tapering, and the hoof is small, compact,and deer-like, indicating that the bison is intended for a life uponhard ground and among hills and rocks. The foot-print of thelarge bull mentioned above, measured only 4 inches long by 3^wide, a remarkably small foot for so heavy an animal. Unless they have been thoroughly alarmed, bison are very un-suspicious, and are easily stalked and shot. They usually go inherds of from ten to thirty individuals, sometimes more, and, whenfeeding, can be approached within easy gun-shot without much
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s St a . o < ^ O■J. a THE POETRY OF FOREST LIFE.—BISOX SHOOTING. 189 difficulty. I never found much sport in shooting a bison out ofa herd, except in following the trail, for there is so Uttle difficultyand danger connected with it that I felt no more pride in attack-ing a herd of bison than I would a herd of bullocks. In fact, whenin a drove they seemed too much like ordinary cattle. To showwhat tame sport bison shooting is when once the game is found,I will relate the following : Two days after the death of the sohtary bull mentioned above,we went out and found the trail of a similar individual, but just aswe came to the end of his trail we found he had joined a herd ofabout fifteen others. I stalked up close to the herd, and firedacross a little grassy glade at a fine bull, biinging him downpromptly with a shot in the shoulders. Then I fired my remainingbarrel at another bull standing among the bamboos, eighty pacesdistant, but he did not fall. Not feehng very murderously in

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