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up to within about ten yards of the grass where 

 the wounded lion Lay. Fortunately she was 

 badly Avounded by the first shot, or she would 

 probably have come at liim. He caught a glimpse 

 of her and fired. There was a tremendous com- 

 motion in the grass for a second or two. Lee's 

 horse o-ave such a bound that I thouo-ht he would 

 have been thrown, turned round, and galloped 

 away. I followed as fast as I could. We galloped 

 about 200 yards to the right of the direction the 

 other lions had taken, and then pulled up and 

 held another hurried and anxious consultation. 

 Lee wished to go back straight to camp, about 

 three miles off, and get our three dogs, two 

 pointers and a greyhound, which he said would 

 soon show us where the lions might be lying, as 

 in the thick o-rass we could see nothin2:. I was 

 anxious to make certain of the lion last fired at, 

 feeling sure that it was mortally wounded, and 

 could do no harm. And now occurred a stranoe 

 thing. Six koodoo cows came suddenly galloping 

 along fifty or sixty yards away from us one after 

 another. I called out to Lee not to shoot, as 

 they were only cows, without horns, and I did 

 not want matters still further complicated. How- 

 ever, he was not to be denied, jumped off, and 

 shot at the last koodoo, bringing her hea^dly to 

 the ground. She got up again and made off. In 

 two minutes the koodoos, which had been gallop- 

 ing in the direction where the lions had last been 

 seen, came galloping back past us upon their 

 tracks, showing pretty clearly that they had gone 



