We searched to see if we could find any blood; on my part, I could find tracks, but no blood.

The Indian soon called out, and I went to him, but could see no blood, nor any sign that an animal had been wounded.

However, he pointed out the track of a large buck among the many others, and told me that from the manner in which this buck had started off he was certain the animal had been wounded.

As the ground was beaten in every direction by animals, it was only after a tedious search that we found where the buck had struck off.

But no blood was seen until, passing through a thicket of willows, he observed a drop upon a leaf, and next a little more.