SIR SAMUEL UAKi;U. I -A 



in all quarters by lions, one of whom actually visited 

 his camp, he goes on to say, 



" Being resolved to circumvent one or other of 

 these beasts, I, on the following morning, therefore 

 took Talicr Noor, with Hadji AH and Hassan, two 

 of my trusty Tokrooris, and went straight to the 

 spot where I left the carcass of the buffalo I had 

 shot on the preceding day. As I had expected, 

 nothing remained, not even a bone, the ground was 

 much trampled, and tracks of lions were upon the 

 sand, but the body of the buffalo had been dragged 

 into the thorny jungle. 1 was determined, if possible, 

 to get a shot; therefore, 1 followed carefully the 

 track left by the carcass, which hail formed a path 

 in the withered grass. Unfortunately the lions had 

 dragged the buffalo down wind, therefore, after I 

 had arrived within the thick uabbuk and high grass 

 I came to the conclusion that my only chance would 

 be to make a long circuit, and to creep up wind 

 through the thorns, until I should be advised by 

 my nose of the position of the carcass, which would 

 by this time be in a state of putrefaction, and the 

 lions would most probably be with the body. Ac- 

 cordingly, I struck off to my left, and continuing 

 straight forward for some hundred yards, I again 

 struck into the thick jungle, and came round to the 

 wind. Success depended on extreme cant ion, there- 

 fore I advised my three men to keep close behind 

 mo with the spare rifles, as L carried my single- 

 barrelled Bcattic. This rifle was extremely accurate, 

 therefore I had chosen it for this close work, when 

 I expected to get a shot at the eye or the forehead 



