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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 45, 3 October 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Great Shot.—The public is informed by a western hunter that he and his brother spent the year 1840 in and about the Rocky Mountains. They had two rifles, one bullet, and one keg of powder. With these he says they killed on an average twenty-seven head of buffaloes a day. The fact that they did this with one bullet led to the following cross-question :— u How did you kill all these buffaloes with only one bullet? u Listen, and I'll explain, Monsieur. We shot a buffalo—l stood on one side and my brother on the other ; brother fired—the ball passed through into the barrel of my rifle. The next time I fired, and brother caught my ball in his rifle. We kept up the hunt for twelve months, killing nearly 200 buffaloes per week, and yet brought home the same bullet we started with." A miner named John Brown had a narrow escape at Ingle wood, having been drawn up a shaft 450 feet deep, hanging by a bucket with his head downwards. He held the bucket with his bended knee*.