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ouilding it up with fragments of rock. I then sent the steeds to a 

 proper distance, put out my fire, and lay down to watch for the 

 night. 



First came a pallah, closely followed by a wild dog. The 

 pallah escaped ; the wild dog presently returned, and, observing 

 my retreating men, barked loudly ; ten minutes after, about eight 

 wild dogs came up the glen and drank. Night now set in, and 

 the moonlight very faint. Presently an occasional loud displace- 

 ment of rock and stone announced the approach of large game : it 

 was two old buffaloes ; they came and drank, and went away 

 without approaching within shot. Soon after, fourteen buffaloes 

 came ; but before these had finished drinking, they got an alarm, 

 and charged panic-stricken up the rugged mountain side. They 

 had winded two lions, which came up to the fountain head, and 

 drank within eighteen yards of me, where they lay lapping loudly, 

 and occasionally halting for four or five minutes, but, from their 

 light color and the masses of rock that surrounded them, I could 

 not see to fire. About ten minutes after they had drunk I fanciea 

 that they were stili lingering, and on throwing a stone their step 

 was heard retreating among the dry leaves and stones. 



Soon after this six i Id buffaloes approached from a glen behind 

 us : they walked very slowly, standing long to listen. When 

 the leader came up to within twenty yards of us, Kleinboy and I 

 fired together ; it ran thirty yards, and in two minutes fell. His 

 comrades, after considering the matter for five minutes, came on 

 once more : we again took the leader, and he also dropped. His 

 comrades, as before, retreated, but, soon returning, we wounded a 

 third, which we did not get. The moon was now under, and it 

 was'^rery dark ; the buffaloes, however, were determined to try it 

 on once more, and coming up a fourth and last time, we shot 

 another old bull. In about ten minutes lions were very busy on 

 the carcase of the first buffalo, where they feasted till morning, 

 taking another drink before they went away. Toward daybreak 

 we wounded a white rhinoceros, and soon after two black rhinoce- 

 roses fought beside us, but I was too sleepy to rise. 



On the 26th I rose at earliest dawn to inspect the heads of the 



