188 THE LIOX. 



" I ran up in time to see Woodhouse draw bis 

 arm from the brute's jaws. He was, poor fellow, 

 more composed than could be expected. His arm 

 was mashed to a pulp his thumb hanging by a bit 

 of skin, and the hand otherwise dreadfully bitten 

 through. I had him conveyed to our tent, and 

 having splinted the arm, at night he was taken into 

 camp, where medical aid awaited him. 



" The lion, on being brought to the village, was 

 found to have received from twenty-five to thirty- 

 balls, many of them in the head but none, with 

 the exception of the last, had actually penetrated 

 the brain."* 



C. DELAMAINE. 



In India lions were formerly more numerous than 

 at the present day; and the clmuxe of those beasts 

 was the favourite sport of the native Princes- 

 The great ambition of the Mogul, in the time of 

 Aurungzebe was, when mounted, to kill a lion, 

 as such an event not only gratified his pride, but 

 was looked on as a favourable prognostic for the 

 realm. Bernier, after telling us that hunting that 

 animal was the most perilous of amusements, and 

 peculiarly royal, as, except by special permission, 

 the king and princes were the only persons per- 



* To this narrative of his adventure the Major appended the 

 following note. 



"London, 10th March, 1846. 

 " My dear Lloyd, 



"You have nearly killed me. I don't get home till very late, and 

 then have an hour or two ' at the old lion' to undergo. 



" Yours truly, 

 "C. D ." 



