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but, as ifc was now useless to continue a further 

 search in the dark, we returned to our respective 

 bivouacs. Sleep was, of course, out of the question. 

 The dreadful scene haunted my imagination un- 

 ceasingly, and I resolved, as soon as the day should 

 dawn, to pursue the horrible ' man-eater,' and, if 

 possible, to terminate his existence. 



" Accordingly, on the following morning," my 

 friend goes on to say. " Every man possessed of .a 

 gun joined in the chase. At a short distance from 

 the camp the brute was discovered ; but though wo 

 followed him up for a long time, we could never 

 get a shot at him. The cowardly night-prowler 

 took care not to expose himself; and unfortunately 

 only two dogs ventured to face him. Had the 

 whole pack assailed the beast, he would certainly 

 have been brought to bay and despatched. We were 

 on several occasions close upon him, but the dense- 

 ness of the bush always helped him to escape before 

 we could get a good aim. At length we lost his 

 track, and after endeavouring in vain to recover it, 

 were compelled to face homewards without ridding 

 the country of so dire a " pest." 



Though the lion in question escaped Mr. Green 

 for the time, yet it is satisfactory to add that at an 

 after-period this same animal (as there was every 

 reason to believe) met its deatli at his hands, 

 though this was at a considerable distance from the 

 spot where the melancholy catastrophe, just related, 

 occurred. It was further believed that this beast 

 was one of the two notorious " man-eaters" that 



