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wlio made off, and gave us a short, but exciting 

 chase. A bullet from Lee's rifle and one from my 

 smooth bore brought him down ; even then he was 

 not dead, and lay upon the ground with head erect, 

 tossino; his horns at the doo's ayIio were barkino; at 

 him. I gave him two bullets behind the shoulder, 

 Myberg gave him one through the neck, upon 

 which he rose to his feet, swayed about heavily for 

 a few seconds, staggered forward a few paces, and 

 then fell down dead. The tenacity of life of these 

 creatures is inconceivable. It was now dusk, and 

 Ave had some difficulty in finding our way back to 

 cam|), distant about two miles. Here we found 

 Captain Williams, who had hunted and badly 

 wounded three quaggas, but had been unable to 

 secure any of them, owing to the poor quality of 

 his steed. So ended Avhat w^as to me a very 

 memorable day. I had thought Avlien I came to 

 Africa that I Avould try and shoot a few nice buck, 

 but I had never bargained to come across such a 

 posse of lions. On revieAving the incidents of 

 the day, I came to the conclusion that all had 

 ended A-ery fortunate!}', and that I had had an ex- 

 citing experience such as is knoAvn to few, and had 

 escaped unscathed. The folloAving morning. Sun- 

 da a^, July 26th, I started off at daybreak Avith Lee 

 and " the boys " and six mules to find and bring 

 into camjD our wounded game of the day before. 

 The quagga and the roan antelope, which latter 

 had been killed on the preA^ous CA^ening, Avere 

 soon found close by each other. The former was 

 quickly skinned. Tavo trees, one of fair size and 



