CHAPTER LXV. 



SOCTURNAL ADVENTURE WITH SIX LIONS 



content with encountering four lions at once, Mr. Onmmiig, 

 on a certain occasion, gave battle to six. He thus describes this 

 adventure. On the afternoon of th< 4th, I deepened my hole and 

 watched the water. As the sun went down two graceful springboks 

 and a herd of pallah came and drank, when I shot the best pallah in 

 the troop. At night I watched the water with Kleinboy : very soon 

 a cow black rhinoceros came and drank, and got off for the present 

 with two balls in her. A little afterwards two black rhinoceroses and 

 two white ones came to the water-side. We both fired together at the 

 finest of the two black rhinoceroses ; she ran three hundred yards, 

 and fell dead. Soon after this the other black rhinoceros came up 

 again and stood at the water-side ; I gave her one ball after the 

 shoulder.; she ran a hundred yards and fell dead. In half an hour 

 a third old borele appeared, and, having inspected the two dead dues, 

 he came up to the water-side. We fired together ; he ran two hun- 

 dred yards and fell dead. I felt satisfied with our success, and gave 

 it up for the night. 



By the following evening the natives had cleared away the greater 

 part of the rhinoceroses which lay right in the way of the game ap- 

 proaching the water; I, however, enforced their leaving the third 

 rhinoceros, which had fallen on the bare rising ground, almost oppo- 

 site my hiding-place, in the hope of attracting a lion, as I intended 

 to watch the water at night. Soon after the twilight had died 

 nway, I went down to my hole with Kleinboy and two natives, who 



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