INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



mount; but the character of the wound in- 

 flicted made this impossible. In spite of the 

 injury received the tawny form glided along 

 the almost perpendicular side of the precipice, 

 picking out here and there a foot rest to aid 

 in its ascent. I fired another shot, which 

 struck behind the shoulder, but did not stop 

 the animal from reaching the top of the 

 precipice, where the dogs soon discovered 

 him. I was not too late to see some of the 

 fight. In the scrimmage the lion got Turk's 

 head partly in his mouth, and for a moment I 

 felt alarmed on account of the dog. For- 

 tunately, the lion's lower jaw refused to work, 

 and Turk got off with light punishment 

 merely a scalp wound, from which the blood 

 flowed freely. 



I began to arrange my camera, intending 

 to take a snap-shot of the melee, but the shade 

 of the trees made the light bad for an instan- 

 taneous photograph, the only one that could 

 be taken of a moving scene; the guide, 

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