[THE AUTHOR.] [MR. Cc. RAWSON.] 
‘SMY OWN TENT WAS PITCHED IN AN OPEN CLEARING.” 
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THE ATTACK ON THE GOODS-WAGON 
ALL this time my own tent was pitched in an 
open clearing, unprotected by a fence of any kind 
round it. One night when the medical officer, Dr. 
Rose, was staying with me, we were awakened 
about midnight by hearing something tumbling 
about among the tent ropes, but on going out with a 
lantern we could discover nothing. Daylight, how- 
ever, plainly revealed the “pug” marks of a lion, 
so that on that occasion I fancy one or other of us 
had a narrow escape. Warned by this experience, 
