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right upon and had winded the lions, who were 

 lying about near their wounded fellows. Lee now 

 insisted that Ave should o-o straio-ht back to the 



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camp and get the dogs, as the situation, he de- 

 clared, was one of danger. I confess that when I 

 was a quarter of a mile from the spot I felt rather 

 relieved, for I had thouo'ht all alons; that eisrht 

 or nine lions was frop de luxe. As we were 

 going along Lee exclaimed, " By Jove, there's a 

 lot of buck ! "' x\.way he galloped, and I after 

 him. We came pretty close up to a lot of about 

 a dozen roan antelope and three quaggas. I 

 dismounted and tired at one, with what effect I 

 do not know, for Lee galloped on, calling to me 

 to get on my horse again. I got up and galloped 

 after him ; he being a considerable distance ahead, 

 I had some difficulty in keeping him in \iew. I 

 heard him fire three or four shots, and, when I 

 got up to him, found that he had one antelope 

 a^^parently dying on the ground, and two more 

 staggering away badly wounded. Just now three 

 antelope cantered by to my left, and I got a 

 capital shot in the open, about seventy yards. I 

 hit one very hard with my first barrel, but did 

 not stop it, caught my horse with a little difficulty, 

 and galloped on after Lee, Avho was again a good 

 way ahead of me. The place seemed alive with 

 game, I came up to Lee, who had again dropped 

 another antelope. I saw a (juagga, about eighty 

 or ninety yards off, fired at him and dropped him 

 just a little beyond Lee's wounded antelope. 

 We walked on towards the antelope and quagga, 



