The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-01

clOuS grasses and beautiful wild hON-
ers grew in profusion in the glades,
n once We came on a large bed OF
delicious wild Strawberries, some
nearly as large as a small home grown
specimen. We stood awhile on a pin
nacle of rock ~overhanging a pass be-
low. Yong, the old hunter, gave a pc
Julia cry, echoed and tossed back
from the surrounding cliffs. He said
the game, if they had heard our ap-
proach, would stand and listen, but at
the cry would at once move off up hill.
On looking over a peak, | was sur
prlsed to see a bull and two cows ly-
Ing within 20 yards of me totally un-
conscious of danger. Another, and big
ger Dull was out Of sight, tucked away
beneath an overhanging rock lower
down the slope. We had previously
drawn for the first shot, which George
mad O George had gone after the
big fellow.
cautiously thrust my rifle over the
rock, took a fine sight at the bulls
neck and waited. 1t seemed an age,
but at last Georges shot rang out,
n before he could get to his feet
my bull was dead. l heard a crash
from below; the two COWS dashed past
me, and as they did SO | had a second
shot. We badly wanted meat. so
somewhat reluctantly, | then fired at
one OF the youngsters. and incidentally
made some very bad shooting.
Yong seized my arm as another ami
NAL bolted below us. Thinking it was
the COW | had already fired at, which |
thought was dead, | had a shot and ap-
parently missed. but the beast car
ried on. | tried again and as he blum
dered owe the rock, had the salts
faction of seeing him fall. George
appearing below me, | joined him. He
had killed a big bull with a shot in
the brain. It had pitched straight
over the ledge on which it lay, and
lodged in the center of the stone
shoot. Unfortunately, one horn was
broken. While he told me this a
COW suddenly shot into the air as
though propelled through a stage trap
door within a few yards of us. This. |
thought, must surely be my COW which
nad as many lives as a cat. | gasped,
the doctor yelled, and George, in only
his rope sandals, dashed round the
corner in pursuit. Very shortly !
heard a shot, George came %clambering
back, and we compared notes. He had
got the big bull and the COW which he
had just shot. The latter had pitch.
ed a good 1900 feet over rocks, trees
and shoots, and "a subsequently dis.
covered by the ind%efatigable doctor
smashed to a pulp. l had one bull,
and the animal which, as | thought,
had been wounded by my second shot.
had afterwards, on reviving, been
killed. Yong, however, who had been
indulging in some mysterious maneu.
vers on his own account, came up
shortly afterwards and said he had
found the COW lying beside Georges
bull in the shoot. The other beast
turned out to be 8 bull with a slight
ly better head than my first.
Thus ended a somewhat exciting five
minutes, in which we secured speci-
mems of a very rare animal. Thick
mist came on again almost immediate
ly and lasted during the whole week.
On the 18th l left the cave, as l had
work to do in the valley below.
George remained until the 18th, and
the weather clearing, killed another
COW after some terrible hard work in
thick bamboos. whittier he followed a
herd