Sir Samuel TTClbtte iJBafeer 579 



Away went B. and I as fast as our heels would carry 

 us through the water and over the plain, knowing that 

 he was not dead but only stunned. There was a large 

 fallen tree about half a mile from us, whose whitened 

 branches rising high above the ground, offered a 

 tempting asylum. To this we directed our flying steps, 

 and after a run of a hundred yards, we turned and 

 looked behind us. He had regained his feet and was 

 following us slowly. We now experienced the difference 

 of feeling between hunting and being hunted, and fine 

 sport we must have afforded him. 



On he came, but fortunately so stunned by the 

 collision with her Majesty's features upon the coins 

 which he had dared to oppose that he could only reel 

 forward at a slow canter. By degrees even this pace 

 slackened and he fell. We were only too glad to be 

 able to reduce our speed likewise, but we had no sooner 

 stopped to breathe than he was up again and after us. 

 At length, however, we gained the tree, and we beheld 

 him with satisfaction stretched powerless upon the 

 ground, but not dead, within two hundred yards of us. 



We must certainly have exhibited poor specimens of 

 the boasted sway of man over the brute creation could 

 a stranger have witnessed our flight on this occasion. 



The next morning we were up at day-break, and we 

 returned to the battle-field of the previous evening in 

 the full expectation of seeing our wounded antagonist 

 lying dead where we had left him. In this we were 

 disappointed he was gone, and we never saw him 

 again." 



1 have said that Baker's primary object in going out 



