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panions, aroused by the scuffle, snatched up their 

 guns, and, not knowing one of their number had been 

 carried off, shot in the direction from which the noi.se 

 proceeded. One ball happened to wound the lion, 

 and, in trying to roar, it let me drop from its grasp, on 

 which I instantly ran off, leaving my mantle, and 

 bolted iu amongst my friends, crying out, ' Don't 

 shoot me!' for they supposed at the moment I was 

 the lion." The individual in question, Moffatt goes 

 on to say, " showed the ugly marks of the beast on 

 his shoulder." 



Moffatt himself, on two several occasions, would 

 appear to have been in considerable jeopardy from 

 lions. 



After telling us " that it is a pleasing, sometimes 

 an exciting, exercise, to look back on the rugged 

 path which we have been called to tread, and to 

 recount the dangers from which a gracious provi- 

 dence has rescued us, several of which, in my case, 

 have been so striking that, when I recall the cir- 

 cumstances, I am forcibly impressed with the 

 sentiment, that man is immortal until his work 

 is done," he goes on to say : 



" On the present journey, when travelling alone 

 in a woody and sequestered place, [ left the direct 

 road, to avoid a lord where there were many 

 crocodiles. 1 had not proceeded t\vo stone casts, 

 when it suddenly occurred to me that I should like 

 to examine a projecting rock which lay beyond the 

 path I had left. After examining the object which 

 had attracted my attention, 1 turned towards the 

 place whence I had come, in order to retrace my 



