ADVICE TO THE AMATEUR LION HUNTER. 153 



France in the month of April, and will then have six months 

 more of good weather. I entreat you, not to hunt in winter; 

 it is these winters which have made me an old man at thirty. 

 You will do well during three months every year, to lay in a 

 fresh stock of health in the air and food of your native 

 country. 



- Set out for Bone, in the beginning of April ; on arriving, 

 present yourself at the Arab office, explain your new profes- 

 sion, and ask the officer in command to give you authority to 

 visit the tribes of the division, and introduce you to the 

 chiefs. 



If you do not, the tribes being responsible for all the mur- 

 ders committed on their lands, will fear that the lions will 

 strangle, or the night-wanderers kill you, in which case, your 

 death will rest on them, and they will do everything in their 

 power to discourage your expedition. 



Besides, the presence of a Christian among them being 

 insupportable, they will take care not to call on you for aid ; 

 and you not being able to prove to them that you will be 

 neither strangled by the lion nor assassinated by marauders, 

 you have only one way of making any progress in your 

 hunt. 



You must introduce yourself to a cadi who has within the 

 circle of his authority mountains frequented by lions ; assi- 

 duously pay your court to him, and propitiate him by pre. 

 sents. If he consents to assist you, and he will consent if you 

 are generous towards him, buy a mountain horse for yourself 

 and a mule for your baggage. 



If you intend to live well, buy provisions accordingly ; if 

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