ADVICE TO THE AMATEUR LION HUNTER. 1*73 



you from time to time, as if to ask what you are doing 

 there. 



Fire between the eyes and kill at the first shot. 



If you have passed two nights without seeing the lion, you 

 may be sure he will not return, but is killing and eating 

 elsewhere. 



Meanwhile the moon is at its full, it rises at sunset and 

 sinks beneath the horizon at daybreak. 



You have sufficiently studied the manners of the animal 

 to know that in leaving his den, he will follow some particu- 

 lar path, where you can be sure to meet him. 



Set out at sunset, seat yourself on a rock overlooking the 

 den, and wait. 



Pay attention to the first roar, in order to find out the 

 direction the lion is taking. If he is coming towards you, 

 you will only have a few steps to take, if he is going in the 

 opposite direction and you cannot cross the woods, await his 

 return, after he has procured his dinner, and is coming home 

 again. 



This side of the mountain being everywhere thickly covered 

 and intersected with deep ravines, and the lion having only 

 two roads to take to the douars, it will be the more easy for 

 you to meet him. 



When you hear the roarings approach, and if you judge 

 that the animal is on the same path as yourself, walk slowly 

 towards him until you find an open space, in wdiich you can 

 see your foe, and when you have found it, seat yourself and 

 wait 



Whether the lion, on leaving his den, walks with a rapid 



