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barrels, one after the other, and after running about sixty yards 

 he fell over dead. Never shall I forget my joy when I saw 

 him drop. He was a grand beast with horns 3 if and 31 ins. 

 respectively in length, and 25 ins. from tip to tip. His heart 

 was encased in a solid piece of fat, which, after the heart had 

 been cut out of it, and after it had been exposed to the sun 

 for four hours, was found to weigh 18 Ibs. 



On the fourth day after the lions' visit I went up to where 



' At last the bull took a few steps 





they had stood, and followed the 

 well-marked track which they had 



made as they crept along, for a considerable distance. The 

 track clearly showed what their intentions were. They had 

 evidently seen the elands from the other side of the plain, 

 and had attempted to cut them off by stalking across the 

 wind as I was doing. Had the elands continued their 

 course up wind and not stopped where they did they would 

 have passed pretty close to where the lions lay in a thick 

 patch of grass. On seeing that the elands had stopped, the 

 lions had crept diagonally across and down the wind, until 

 the elands detected them. 



But to go back to the best time of day for shooting. Of 

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