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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 313 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 lbs. 
On the fourth day after the lions’ visit I went up to where 
* At last the bull took a few steps forward’ 
they had stood, and followed the § 
_ well-marked track which they had © j 
3 made as they crept along, for a ‘iaidesibbe 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 
Je 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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