HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



out of the saddle Presently he inclined to the west, and got /nto 

 better country ; 1 then rode close to him, and bowled him ovei 

 with lour shots. 



The next morning, my ammunition being expended, or very 

 nearly so, 1 dispatched Carey to camp for fresh supplies. After. 

 he had gone I walked through the forest, when I observed "Fro- 

 chum" snuff up the wind and go ahead. I soon saw him return- 

 ing, with two jackals trotting behind him, so I at once knew that 

 there was some game lying dea'd in advance. When I had pro- 

 ceeded a little further the dogs ran forward, and next moment a 

 rush oj many feet was heard charging toward where I stood. It 

 was a troop of half-grown lions, with a lioness, which dashed past 

 me, followed by the dogs. They had been- feasting on a white 

 rhinoceros, shot by me two nights previously, which I found lying 

 a little in advance. Beside the carcase stood a fine fat calf the 

 poor thing, no doubt, fancying that its mother slept ; heedless of 

 lions, and all the other creatures that had trodden there, it had 

 remained beside its dead mother for a day and two nights. Rhi- 

 noceros' calves always stick to their mothers long after they are 

 dead. The next night. I was again successful in a night hunt, 

 and bagged a very fine bull, elephant. This wound up my ele- 

 phant night shooting for that moon, for next day there was a mosl 

 awful thunder-storm, which tilled the forest with large pools oj 

 water. 



