About half past four o'clock
He was a wicked looking beast , very lean and unamiable in aspect , with hair all standing the wrong way . He had fought some fifty bulls -LRB- so they said -RRB- , always coming out victorious , but that neither one of the fifty had been an Attakapas bull , the bills of the performances did not say . Had he tackled Attakapas first it is likely his fifty battles would have remained unfought . `` About half past four o'clock the performances commenced . `` The bull was first seen , standing in the cage alone , with head erect , and looking a very monarch in his capacity . At an appointed signal , a cage containing the bear was placed alongside the arena , and an opening being made , bruin stalked into the battle ground -- not , however , without sundry stirrings up with a ten foot pole , he being experienced in such matters , and backwards in raising a row . `` Once on the battle-field , both animals stood , like wary champions , eyeing each other , the bear cowering low , with head upturned and fangs exposed , while Attakapas stood wondering , with his eye dilated , lashing his sides with his long and bushy tail , and pawing up the earth in very wrath .