MASSACRE OP DOGS. 1-11 



as three cats would have disposed of the same 

 number of mice. For several minutes nothing was 

 to be heard but the crashing of the reeds, the 

 growling of the lions, and the barking and shriek- 

 ing of the mangled pack ; it was truly a most painful 

 moment to my feelings. Carey, who had come up 

 to assist me, remarked to me that ' there was an 

 awful massacre going on among the dogs ;' and he 

 was right. Night now setting in put an end to 

 this horrid work, and, with feelings of remorse and 

 deep regret at my folly in not having at once called 

 off my poor dogs, I wended my way to camp. On 

 numbering the slain, three of my best hounds were 

 found to have forfeited their lives in the unequal 

 contest, and seven or eight more were very badly 

 wounded, exposing the most fearful gashes, from 

 which several of them never recovered." 



