MR. FRED GILLETT’S LION AND LEOPARD HUNT. 
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“Whilst Dr. Smith was absent, I had a camel tied in 
a large patch of very thick bush, in which I found the 
fresh tracks of lions, but it was some days before one 
acknowledged the bait. In the mean time, however, I was 
busy following up fresh tracks, but all to no purpose. I got 
closer than I wanted, though, one night: I was following 
a wounded zebra, and the tracks led into a dense country 
so full of small thorn-bushes that it was with the greatest 
LION. SHOT BY I. GILLETI. 
Photograph by F. Gillett. 
difficulty my shikari and I pushed our way through it. 
It had become quite dark, and I was just about to turn back, 
when I heard a growl in the bushes to my right, not twenty 
yards distant. It was an impossible place to tackle a lion, 
‘Shall I carry the rifle for you?’ said my boy; but under 
the circumstances it did not seem at all heavy, and we 
made the best of our way back to camp without another 
word. 
“At last luck changed; and one morning my _ boys 
